Misc. On Resplendancy

[Mark Kohut]

In The Wheel of Fire , after a discussion of literary interpretation vs. criticism, perhaps not
even as good as the one we plisters once had in which someone 
brought Hank James to the party, among others,  G. Wilson Knight,
Shakespeare scholar writes this:
 
"But sometimes work is created of so resplendant a quality, so massive a solidity of imagination,
that adverse criticism beats against it idly as the wind that flings its ineffectual fate against a mountain-rock."
 
Take THAT, critic/reviewers who nit-pick Pynchon. This, anyway, might describe how I feel 
about much adverse criticisim, I'm lookin' at you Mr. Wood and loads of lesser readers who
don't mountain climb.....
 
 
And, Knight presents an interesting perspective which might also be relevant for Pynchon appreciators.
He stresses like few, the need to see/hold/feel any Shakespeare play whole in the mind BEFORE judging
ultimately, since Shakey is so nuanced and his writing decisions are thought out play by play
 
He labels this perspective as "spatial"....whole in the mind's eye, I paraphrase ...........THEN
 
Says that 'mental whole' can be called 'spiritual' although that word in this context need hold no
religious over or undertones .......but so often DOES with the greatest writers (like Shakey) because
whatever perspective on the ultimate questions a work might contain, such metaphysical/human 
concerns are, basically, one major meaning of 'spiritual"...........................