Contrasting light
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 23:26:27 CDT 2012
I mentioned the variety of mentions of light in M&D. Richly textured, that.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Was it Toby Levy, or another. who wrote about all the times the word 'light'
> appeared in GR too (re AtD)?
>
> Anyway, I reread the very beginning of GR and, of course, he is right but
> once the ubiquity of the word is focused on, one can immediately feel it
> here
> as something mostly missing, barely bright in that collapsed Crystal Palace
> scene.
> The light is almost gone there...
>
> Whereas, TRP starts off AtD with what can feel like a conscious
> countertheme..
> Light Across the Ranges, in the sun, in the daylit
> world........................
--
"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
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