Thanks and
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue May 27 12:03:01 CDT 2008
That TRP and his incredbile connections.....................you've linked some.........
I never, ever, thought I would run across McTaggart outside of Russell's autobio again---and
almost never in such a wonderful light....................
David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2008 (02:59:42 -0400), Michael Bailey (michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com) wrote:
> but I like this idea (also from the Wikipedia article)
> "McTaggart concluded the world was composed of nothing but souls,
> each soul related to one or more of the others by love."
> -----with some jockeying, that could describe the plot of AtD...
Much like Cyprian's "Cosmic Revelation":
"At a café off Katunska Ulica near the marketplace, Cyprian, sitting across a table from the cooing couple (whose chief distinction from pigeons, he reflected must be that pigeons were more direct about shitting on one), at great personal effort keeping his expression free of annoyance was visited by a Cosmic Revelation, dropping from the sky like pigeon shit, namely that Love, which people like Bevis and Jacintha no doubt imaged as a single Force at large in the world, was in fact more like the 333,000 or however many different forms of Brahma worshipped by the Hinduthe summation, at any given movement, of all the varied subgods of love that mortal millions of lovers, in limitless dance, happened to be devoting themselves to." (848)
The opposite condition is expressed later:
"It [railway] penetrated, it broke apart cities and wild herds and watersheds, it created ecomonic panics and armies of jobless men and women, and generations of hard, bleak city-dwellers with no principles who ruled with unchecked power, it took away everything indiscriminately, to be sold, to be slaughtered, to be led beyond the reach of love." (930)
And there's one more quote I was reaching for but couldn't quite find -- a passage relatively late in the book where someone (Kit?) was in a hotel and had some realization or vision that was triggered by an awareness of souls on the other side of the wall??? Maybe I made that one up...
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