St. Helena's ill Wind

Lorentzen / Nicklaus lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Thu Nov 18 02:26:05 CST 1999


"The wind seems to be blowing cross-wise to the light incoming from Sirius, 
producing false images, as if, in Bradley's Metaphor for the Aberration, the 
Vehicle, Wind, has broken thro' some Barrier, and enter'd the no-nonsense regime 
of the Tenor, Light, whilst remaining attach'd to it. As supernatural as a 
Visitant from the Regime of Death to the sunny Colony of Life, - to be 
metaphorickal about it ...." (Mason & Dixon, p. 173)

 That's really uncanny! The whole issue pushes me to a certain feeling of 
 'metaphysical' uneasiness ...
                         
 Shivering, KFL   




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