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Mar 22, 2022Liked by Freya Rohn

Djuna’s favorite Synge quote—

“There is no strong timber that has not roots amidst the clay and the worms.”

A longer, more involved comment:

I’ve been trying to understand TE Hulme’s Tory Philosophy. I have come to my agree without him. It’s an anti-romantic argument, of course, and he begins by focusing on his contention that humans do not change. That was a stumbling block and it kept me from understanding his point. What about Platonic years? Yeats’ gyres?

Eventually I realized that he was speaking of the gift that keeps on giving, more properly, the rupture — Pandora’s box — that is the font of everything.

Yes, that is rather constant, but terms change. And this led me to a conclusion about the problems of memory, remembering. *Synecdoches become radically personal*.

Christ

Kant

Paris

Ulysses

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I really love that last line. And the idea of "overwitnessing" is ... oof.

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