the radiant hour

[Dave Monroe]

On 6/29/07, bob mccart <lebishar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was reading The BUeatiful and Damned and came across the chapter title of
> The Radiant Hour and remembered it vaguely from toward the end of GR as a
> thing that a team must recover. Have I mixed up the names or has anyone else
> done any more with this connection?

Also ...

Main Entry: ra·di·ant
Pronunciation: 'rA-dE-&nt
Function: adjective
1 a : radiating rays or reflecting beams of light b : vividly bright
and shining : GLOWING
2 : marked by or expressive of love, confidence, or happiness <a radiant smile>
3 a : emitted or transmitted by radiation b : emitting or relating to
radiant heat
synonym see BRIGHT

Main Entry: radiant
Function: noun
: something that radiates : as a : a point in the heavens at which the
visible paths of meteors appear to meet when traced backward b : the
part of a gas or electric heater that becomes incandescent

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

May every page within this book Be as a radiant hour; Or like a bank
of mountain brook, All flower and leaf and flower. [1871-82]

http://www.arcamax.com/poetry/b-1091-32-bprint

  THE HOUR OF LOVE*

What exceeds this hour in tenderness?
You are with me, lover, with me.
And you have moved my heart --
When you have looked upon me,
Embraced me, pressed against me.
    This is the radiant hour of delight
    As you have gazed upon me --
    As your hand caresses me
    You touch my breast....

http://www.albany.edu/faculty/rlp96/decadence.html

So that all through the radiant hour
A sweet awe mingled with their glee ...

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129(195306)68:3%3C357:RM%3E2.0.CO;2-1

V674.19—20, B785.38 the Radiant Hour Phoebus (Radiant) was a Greek
kenning for the god Apollo. From prior references to the "Evil Hour"
and "Rocket Noon," "the Radiant Hour" is probably high noon (see
V374.39-375.2n)

http://books.google.com/books?id=mj7sFr6b6aMC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=%22radiant+hour%22+-campbell&source=web&ots=NSXY_2s9VV&sig=KztTIFxBc5MesSDUkv_Ij2UVIgU