AtD The Fourth Dimension

[Mark Kohut]

The Fourth Dimension as concept (with allusion to Ouspensky's 
book of that title) plays a major role in Against The Day. In the 
Time, eternal return and timelessness sections.......
 
I haven't read Ouspensky's book, but am now seeking one to 
continiue distracting me--and us if you read my posts-- from other issues...
But I have learned---this is for Bled Welder---that Ouspensky wrote a novel that 
dealt with the concept of eternal return...whan't just Nietzsche (or Eliade)..
 
BUT, a new old friend--thank you ---sent me a copy of The Wandering Scholars,
by Helen Waddell: The Life and Art of the Lyric Poets of the Latin Middle Ages,
 that book that TRP mentions in Slow Learner. 
 
In it, I read this [in a chapter called "The Break with the Pagan Tradition"]: 
 
"But the sense that besieges every gate and inlet of the poetry of Donne, that leaves St. Paul beating
about for words of length and breadth and depth and height, stumbling on the threshold 
of the fourth dimension, the tanto oltraggio, the mighty outrage on the experience of the human
mind of Dante's final ecstasy, of this it is empty." 
 
Pharase seems to mean more than "time"....
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