Recog ch 2

[alice wellintown]

Wyatt is certainly suggestive; of what, that is the questions that
rubs me in the wrong part of my brain; for he seems,at this point, to
suggest more than he can. He is, a Yeats describes in "A Dialogue of
Self and Soul,"

The ignominy of boyhood; the distress
Of boyhood changing into man;
The unfinished man and his pain
Brought face to face with his own clumsiness;

Yet, it is his father who shores the fragments against his ruins; it
is his father who is summoned to the winding stair:


{My Soul} I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
Upon the breathless starlit air,
'Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
Fix every wandering thought upon
That quarter where all thought is done:
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul

And, while Dedalus and Lazarus may be buried by the barn, soon to be
resurrected, once the boy of Araby, or the devilish Pearl of
Hawthorne's Black Minister is given a life, is made a character, at
this point, Wyatt remains an unfisnished figure.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:51 PM,  <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess Wyatt doesn't hope for an eternal reward.
>
> All his history to me at one point suggested that.
>
> Anyway I am glad we are moving on and have enjoyed
> reading all the recent posts on the book.
>
> I was trying to enjoy some current music the other day
> and got caught in an infinite regression as I tried to trace
> the composer's influences and then
> who influenced the influencers.
>
> bleh!
>
> ed