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[Dave Monroe]

Key word = enigma ...

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah. Yes, I see there is considerable resonance in the metaphor on
> those terms. Good one. Might apply to any of those moments in P. where
> he leaves the character and the reader poised on the brink of some
> epiphany that never becomes explicit. It is also, as I recollect when
> I look back that far, resonant of a certain subjective response when a
> person is particularly high, as in the case of tripping, e.g., where
> one has the sensation of something really cool on the edge of
> awareness, just out of reach. Truth? Beauty? Or just epiphanic
> insight? Hm.