Sublime

Connally, his arm in a sling, hovered pacing at the perimeter of our circle, drinking at a bottled seltzer whose volume seemed to remain somehow constant.

What one’s imagination makes of other people is dictated, of course, by the laws of one’s own personality and it is one of the ironies of black-white relations that, by means of what the white man imagines the black man to be, the black man is enabled to know who the white man is.

The story that isn’t Mark Nechtr’s by Mark Nechtr concerns a young competitive archer, named Dave, and his live-in lover, named L____. Dave, who is not nearly so healthy as Mark, believes that the only things that give his life meaning and direction are his competitive archery and his lover, L____, who is a great deal more attractive and sympatheti

we can enlarge and enrich experience by recognizing how Greek authors, prior to modern science, represented the thing that is both closest to us and yet is still, in some sense, quite mysterious—our own essence as a human self. Many of their ideas are utterly remote from the individualistic and secular contexts of our body-centered market capitalis

to think, to reason, to find a balance between wisdom and passion, this is Morris’s main objective.

Edward Hopper),

« Il manque peu de chose, poursuit-il : une ligne générale plus nette entre le voulu et le vécu, un contraste plus souligné entre la dimension de l’âme et celle des mains, et l’humour l’emporte un peu trop sur la poésie, qui est pour moi – la poésie – la seule façon possible de transcender notre condition, et la seule philosophie.