Ahab & Merleau-Ponty....Graves....

[Scott Badger]

Rob:
> I think that Emerson's aphorism relates closely to the theme of
> futurity and
> subjunctivity in _M&D_, that the events of time, and particular of future
> time, are unknown and unknowable, that it is a "space which may
> not be seen"
> by mortal men, whereas Wicks reappropriates this philosophical/scientific
> revelation and insinuates that God, out of "Mercy", chose not to bless
> humans with divine ominiscience.

Well, if not God, then R.C. (and Emerson) --

'"What were my choices?" R.C. nearly breathless. The thing was either
bewitch'd, by Country Women in the middle of the night,- Fire, monthly
Blood, Names of Power,- or perfected, as might any Watch be, over years,
small bit by bit, to its present mechanickal State, by Men in work-shops,
and in the Daytime. That was the sexual Choice the Moment presented,-
between those two sorts of Magic.'

Scott Badger