Icelandic Spar, doubleness, wha?

[Ian Livingston]

Oddly, I woke this morning thinking about the infiniteness of the twin
realms of possibility and impossibility. As utterly abstract ideas
both realms are both dimensionless and, well, non-existent, really.
However, it seemed to me as I drifted up into the realm of the
infinite middles, that all existence and activity is shaped in the
interface of the two, where dimensionality emerges as possibility
shaped by impossibility. I suppose I musta read too much Buddhist
philosophy, or took too much of something at some time in the past,
but it seemed somehow synchronous with your inquiry, here, Mark. My
personal inquiry that arose from that twilight zone had to do with
morality and ethics, but I guess that could pass time in Pynchonia,
too. But not now. Lovely though the woods are, I have promises to
keep....

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Icelandic Spar is some kind of metaphor in AtD surely, correct?
> I'm sure we can spin out some possibilities.
>
> T.S. Eliot wrote an introduction to G. Wilson Knight's major
> book on Shakespeare called The Wheel of Fire and in that intro
> he wrote:
>
> "But the greatest poetry, like the greatest prose, has a doubleness;
> the poet is talking to you on two planes at once."
>
> I thought of Icelandic Spar, but I'm touched with a connectiveness
> disorder so, forgetting that, we can still see how Eliot's words
> fit our Pynchon who packs in the planes like he wants all ten dimensions
> of the universe in his prose, yes?
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant