Saturday, November 30, 2013

From the Archives: Part 83 of The Self and its Sources




Detachment, repose, composure

From the Archives: Part 82 of The Self and its Sources




The 'satellites' of Percival: attracted to his ‘monolithic gigantic repose’
Dandyism: striking the pose of being the one who doesn’t care about what others think. You must not look into the lens…

Thursday, November 28, 2013

From the Archives: Part 81 of The Self and its Sources




Echoes of the poetry of TS Eliot in Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves”...and Robert Hughes comments on Andy Warhol.
In Warhol’s world the hunger for approval and forgiveness was satisfied by publicity.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

From the Archives: Part 80 of The Self and its Sources




Using sexuality as a semblance of transcendence will inevitably tend toward violence.
The image of the nightingale – in mythology it is the transformed victim of rape.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

From the Archives: Part 79 of The Self and its Sources




Paul Tillich: “Personality is impossible without faith.”
Denis De Rougemont: there are two religions vying for ascendancy in the west, Christianity and passionate romance.
Sexuality simulating transcendence

Friday, November 22, 2013

From the Archives: Part 78 of The Self and its Sources




The hysteria of trying to define oneself vis a vis others.
Our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

From the Archives: Part 77 of The Self and its Sources




Percival – the center of everyone’s attention. The others are like soldiers in the presence of their captain..
Order and disorder: Like the rays around a star in the middle of a smashed window pane
The need for order is also the need for transcendence, whether true transcendence oriented toward God – or false (deviated) transcendence oriented toward someone human, idolatry

Monday, November 18, 2013

From the Archives: Part 76 of The Self and its Sources




St Paul: “I live now, but no longer I, but Christ lives in me.”
Everybody is somebody’s fool. Whose fool are you?

Saturday, November 16, 2013

From the Archives: Part 75 of The Self and its Sources




Read the Bible until it takes root in you. The only alternative to prayer is madness

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

From the Archives: Part 73 of The Self and its Sources




Bernard’s and Neville’s attempts to stabilize their selves.
Influence from Dostoyevsky’s ‘Notes from Underground’

Sunday, November 10, 2013

From the Archives: Part 72 of The Self and its Sources




Rhoda says, “I have no end in view”, “I have nobody to follow”, “I have no face”. She yearns for ‘lodgment’.

St. Augustine’s phrase, “...we are restless until we rest in God”

Friday, November 08, 2013

From the Archives: Part 71 of The Self and its Sources




The image of the open door - the possibility of an escape from the current crisis.

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

From the Archives: Part 70 of The Self and its Sources




The image of the ‘drop’ as a picture of the instability of the self. It begins to swell until its weight causes it to fall. The characters transition from one crisis to another.

Monday, November 04, 2013

From the Archives: Part 69 of The Self and its Sources




From this point on all the characters in the novel are trying to deal with their instability.

The sacrament of marriage

Saturday, November 02, 2013

From the Archives: Part 68 of The Self and its Sources




The characters in Virginia Woolf's novel "The Waves" are now older – “the sun risen bared its face and looked over the waves…they fell with a regular thud.”

The disintegration of the self.