tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post812451271742640792..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Serenity, Dignity and Cool Radiance'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-50716668648267434572009-09-18T15:16:44.150-05:002009-09-18T15:16:44.150-05:00Thanks for this fantastic post and the good news o...Thanks for this fantastic post and the good news of a possible collected prose. In reading those quoted paragraphs, my mind drifted to those lines in "The Envoy of Mr Cogito,"<br /><br />repeat old incantations of humanity fables and legends <br />because this is how you will attain the good you will not attain <br />repeat great words repeat them stubbornly <br />like those crossing the desert who perished in the sand<br /><br />I slide between despair and exuberance when I read those lines. He nails us.An Anxious Anglicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630532668798784975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-62120179739424325622009-09-16T09:59:30.547-05:002009-09-16T09:59:30.547-05:00Regarding the barbaric destruction of beautiful wo...Regarding the barbaric destruction of beautiful works, wait until you get to the part in <i>Monrovia, Mon Amour</i> where Daniels finds the piano.Stevehttp://www.skepticaldoctor.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-39189957780940341172009-09-15T14:12:48.516-05:002009-09-15T14:12:48.516-05:00Thanks for the link and extended quotes. Very time...Thanks for the link and extended quotes. Very timely for me since I'm just finishing <i>Fathers and Children</i>. <br /><br />You may have already seen the following, but Daniels/Dalrymple has more on Turgenev and relates the author with more of his experiences in <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_3_urbanities-how_and_how_no.html" rel="nofollow">this article</a> at City Journal.Dwighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688525659034403580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-12959798860134400342009-09-15T10:57:54.808-05:002009-09-15T10:57:54.808-05:00Herbert's three paragraphs here is one of the ...Herbert's three paragraphs here is one of the most beautiful quotes I've ever read. It gets to the glow under the glow, so to speak.<br /><br />I look forward to the Collected Prose.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com