tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post2286512799985644178..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: 'The Light Falling Down Through the Universe'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-10376228341199829092020-05-30T13:00:48.054-05:002020-05-30T13:00:48.054-05:00It could be a Gnostic reference, to the "brea...It could be a Gnostic reference, to the "breaking of the vessels", and a kind of divinity being dispersed throughout the dark material world. In which case it would bear similarity to Plato's Ideals, like men seen in silhouette against the sky.mathewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00357501403874008709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-73081730973017420162020-05-22T05:23:06.233-05:002020-05-22T05:23:06.233-05:00Hardly relevant, but that phrase immediately put m...Hardly relevant, but that phrase immediately put me in mind of the beautiful line from Thomas Nashe's Litany in Time of Plague (a line that obsessed Stephen Daedalus, if I remember rightly) –<br /><br />Beauty is but a flower<br />Which wrinkles will devour;<br />Brightness falls from the air;<br />Queens have died young and fair;<br />Dust hath closed Helen's eye.<br />I am sick, I must die.<br /> Lord, have mercy on us!<br /><br />Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.com