Stephen Dedalus on “esthetic stasis” as the “proper, esthetic emotion.” —Aristotle has not defined pity and terror. I have. I say— Lynch halted and said bluntly: —Stop! I won’t listen! I am sick. I…
Posts tagged james joyce
Art Thou Pale for Weariness…
“Like a joyless eye/finding no object worth its constancy.” The following excerpt from Joyce’s Portrait seems usefully illustrative of the previous post. And really, illustrative of the modern mind. Joyce seems dead on in Simon…
The Order of Things
Yesterday, our Sunday paper ran a usual column. Our paper reserves Sundays for the opinions of luminaries and liars–it depends on your point of view how you might class these scriveners of quotidian hierarchy. This…