Back to AtD; 'a brief moment of certitude' p.950

[rich]

sounds like mumbo jumbo to me. exactly how is cyprian an ideal
man--all mr enlightenment, gonna live with the other nuns while the
rest of humanity continues on with its death dance. so he conquered
buggery and all sorts. what next. obviously, become a nun and be like
pico iyer hanging with the dahlia lama and let everyone else know how
wonderful enlightenment is.

i hate this romantic crap

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:40 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Brief moment of certitude" from some "familiarity" of countless previous
> experiences, "brought back from an exterior darkness."
>
> Sounds to me like an archetypal memory.  Jung, mythology...
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2012, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>> p.950 If Cyprian is some kind of new ideal man, new ideal man-woman so to
>> speak, and in some way
>> he is a new ideal person, fer sure, right? (not THE ideal but an ideal/)
>> then he exists in some new uncertain
>> transvaluation of all values, yes?.....some new relativity (as simple
>> metpahor) of relationships?
>>
>> and then he is handed Ljubica...."Cyprian] took her warily, her lightness
>> fitting so easily after all into his hands,
>> nearly tugging him off the floor"----don't you love that? -- how does
>> lightness tug? except in the pull of
>> father-like love?.....
>>
>> "But more than that, the familiarity, as if this had already happened
>> countless times before. He wouldn't dare
>> say it out loud. But, somehow, here was a brief moment of certitude,
>> brought back from an exterior darkness,
>> as if to fill a space he could not have defined before this......."
>>
>> in this book of satirizing almost everything, where all the religious
>> stuff seems to lead to no clear religious
>> acceptance---but to an embracing of Mystery as the religion we might
>> believe in----here is
>>
>> CERTITUDE.....holding a new person. One meaning of life is new life?