The Vormance chapters in AtD.

[Jochen Stremmel]

The Cold Heaven

Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven
That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,
And thereupon imagination and heart were driven
So wild that every casual thought of that and this
Vanished, and left but memories, that should be out of season
With the hot blood of youth, of love crossed long ago;
And I took all the blame out of all sense and reason,
Until I cried and trembled and rocked to and fro,
Riddled with light. Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken,
Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent
Out naked on the roads, as the books say, and stricken
By the injustice of the skies for punishment?


As the books say.

Am Do., 7. März 2019 um 11:30 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> It does and a nice thematic link within the oeuvre.
>
> But what keeps hitting me re these chapters is iceheartedness symbolically
> elaborated and the Trespassers
> and what they come back from.
>
> Which could be a world turned Snow Piercer (entropy redo) apocalyptic, of
> course.
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:51 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Entropy gets very cold.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:41 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice"---Robert
> Frost....
> >>
> >> Rereading AtD after rereading Bleeding Edge and ice as darkest metaphor
> >> for
> >> us looms like an impending avalanche.
> >> One of the surprises for me in reading Dante for the first time is that
> >> there is ice in Hell...
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:52 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Arctic Vortex.So Romantic, prometheus 3.0, the special vormance
> edition
> >> > swinging wildly through the northern hemisphere, taking lives, fueling
> >> the
> >> > fire that is coming. Hearts frozen in terror, importing more ice to
> the
> >> > center of the vast cultural indifference.  What is horror as a genre
> but
> >> > the subconscious screams emerging from the ever thickening detritus of
> >> > denial.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > On Mar 6, 2019, at 6:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > The arctic North. the cold, the ice and
> >> > > so much atmosphere. Is this where P
> >> > > gives us another of his ambiguous perspective
> >> > > on "original sin", on our 'human natures'?
> >> > >
> >> > > The objective correlative of our human badness? Jung's
> >> > > collective unconscious writ Dantean?  That city he writes
> >> > > of.....
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