The Vormance chapters in AtD.

[Mark Kohut]

As above, so below.....also Yeats....and AtD...

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:20 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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