TboneSE
calbert at hslboxmaster.com
calbert at hslboxmaster.com
Sun Aug 12 09:53:26 CDT 2001
"Preapocalypse," you betcha. But because I haven't
noticed this mentioned, although I assume it's been
assumed, Ezekiel 37: 1-14, "The Vision of the Dry
Bones" (King James Version) ...
Thank you, David.....
and Eliot isn't done slamming teleology...
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust."
Choruses from 'The Rock'
and who can forget
"and I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
ln 30 TWL
even more specifically:
"There is no end of it, the voiceless wailing,
No end to the whithering of whithered flowers,
to the movement and pain that is painless and motionless,
to the drift of the sea and the drifting wreckage,
the bone's prayer to Death its God. Only the hardly, barely prayable
prayer of the one Annunciation
It seems, as one becomes older,
that the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere
sequence -
or even development: the latter a partial fallacy,
encouraged by superficial notions of evolution,
Which becomes, in the popular mind, a means of disowning the
past."
lns 79-89 The Dry Salvages From Four Quartets
(Man, where has TS been all my life?)
love,
cfa
ready for Seneca?
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