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Pastimes : Metaphysics and Spiritual Practices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carol who wrote (586)	3/17/1998 10:30:00 PM
From: Carol	Respond to of 650

METAPHOR.........continued "But alas," the ashen professor hollowly concluded, "these newly resurrected texts, for all their lean mascularity (the cleanly gnawed bones of noun, the powerful hamstrings of verb) carry still the faulty chromosome, the trace element, of metaphor --- since language itself is but a metaphoric expression of human experience. It is the punishing silence around the word that must now be claimed for literature, the pure uncobbled stillness of the caesura whose unknowingness throws arrows of meaning (palpable as summer fruit approaching ripeness) at the hem of that stitched underskirt of affirmation/negation, and plants a stout flag once and forever in the unweeded, unchoreographed vacant lot of being. The End taken from VARIOUS MIRACLES a series of short stories by (hehehehe dare I say the name) CAROL SHIELDS (sigh) a truly joyous outpouring of literary images, I'm inspired...