This looks like a huge project. A lot here to digest.
This line stands out for me, though:
The hardest thing of all to see, Baker writes, is what is really there.
I just bought Centuries by Thomas Traherne. I am at the beginning, but Traherne appears to be saying the same thing. Is there a throughline between the two? I would guess there is.
A fascinating project . . . I think there is a kind of rhythmic, musical progress involved in epektasis. The apophatic reaches out beyond the image or perhaps touches upon an aniconic root that then gives birth to new images. Fosse's work lacked that sense of continuing adventure -- and there was something in the desire to renounce memory, the artistic work as a nullification, that is too much purely a disincarnation. The questing symbolic joy is missing. Anyway, it will be rewarding to see how you grapple with all this. I love that David Jones book . . . You should read Peguy's essays, too, btw. You'll see in the ms I sent you just how congenial all these thoughts are to my own mode of thinking.
This looks like a huge project. A lot here to digest.
This line stands out for me, though:
The hardest thing of all to see, Baker writes, is what is really there.
I just bought Centuries by Thomas Traherne. I am at the beginning, but Traherne appears to be saying the same thing. Is there a throughline between the two? I would guess there is.
Hi, Jonathan,
A fascinating project . . . I think there is a kind of rhythmic, musical progress involved in epektasis. The apophatic reaches out beyond the image or perhaps touches upon an aniconic root that then gives birth to new images. Fosse's work lacked that sense of continuing adventure -- and there was something in the desire to renounce memory, the artistic work as a nullification, that is too much purely a disincarnation. The questing symbolic joy is missing. Anyway, it will be rewarding to see how you grapple with all this. I love that David Jones book . . . You should read Peguy's essays, too, btw. You'll see in the ms I sent you just how congenial all these thoughts are to my own mode of thinking.