Was it Hesper or Phosphor?

[Lemuel Underwing]

It would seem his intentions were Poetic, and thus, as Blake sez markedly,
a member of the "Devil's party, without knowing it."
Or as Yeats sez, he has mistaken "the brightness of the moon, / for the
prosaic light of day" and thereby the Ob is wrecked, and if he were a Poet
and not an Astronomer, perhaps he would have drowned as well in the Great
Bog of Cloone?


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah yes, no I knew you were ginspeaking, beating swords into ginshares and
> spears into ginning hooks, but which Shem is he worshiping, which fires in
> the night or the day, does it depend on the oc with the squiggly..?
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> O dear me, must've been the Gin talking hoho...
>>
>> Hesper, the evening star, and Phosphorus the morning star.
>>
>> Phosphorus is connect'd to Lucifer via a passage in the Greek ver. of
>> Isaiah,
>> he is worshiping Lucifer as Hesperus, the father...?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
>> madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What are you talking about?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> silly me I forgot my ος, so 'tis Phosphorus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Lemuel Underwing <
>>>> luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A wonderful passage from M&D upon the general Poetic Confusion on the
>>>>> subject,
>>>>>  p96:
>>>>> *"Somebody somewhere in the World, watching the Planet go dark agains
>>>>> the Sun, - dark, mad, mortal, the Goddess in quite another Aspect indeed, -
>>>>> cannot help blurting, exactly at The Moment, from Sappho's fragment 95,
>>>>> seeming to wreck thereby the Ob, -
>>>>> "O Hesperus, - you bring back all that bright day scatter'd, - you
>>>>> bring in the sheep, and the goat, - you bring the Child back to her mother."
>>>>> "Thank you for sharing that with us... recalling that this is
>>>>> Sun-Rise, Dear, -Rise, not sun-**Set."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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