Btz42 that arrow blowin' in the wind.

[Joseph Tracy]

It seems quite clear that Roland represents, to whatever degree we credit his realness,  someone who has entered a  dimension through death wherein he is seeing a new ecstatic side to reality; not really a side so much as the  unity he was failing to perceive.

This pov seems to emerge from other characters also and throughout P’s work, though always countered by dark historical developments.   Contrast is such a powerful force in great art as are the subtler tonal ranges. But if I were to pick painters who are reminiscent I would definitely include the masters of  contrast, depth and complexity: Carravagio, Da Vinci, Breughal,  Rembrandt, Goya, perhaps rounded out with the great political social cartoonists from Daumiers to Steinberg.
  Even a monster like Bilicero has some kind of inner contrasting  light that we see in his relation to Rilke. A case where art alone does not redeem.

On Apr 16, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The wind that Roland discovered was " so joyful" that the arrow must veer into it" .....once again, I cannot help but be reminded of Zen and the Art of Archery and with Jessica under that possible interpretation, then that wind, that spiritual element when seen from the Other Side, ( not just a secular wind) is everywhere and makes it all work? 
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> Q: when Roland sez " the wind is everywhere" now he sees, after mentioning he only knew the secular wind.....does this imply to you that that wind which is everywhere is on both sides of that divide? that is the way I read it, but.....l
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