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Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: The Art of TS Eliot
Re Stonehenge, despite its present sanitization, it's still I think thrilling to behold before one, when it first appears into view from the highway.
We have a similar stone circle nearby called Castlerigg near Keswick. It is magnificently situated itself within a surrounding circle of mountains, and consists of an 'inner circle' contained within a wider one.
One day, returning home from a business trip, on a whim I took a small detour to Castlerigg, and parked the car and entered the field and gawped at the vista in which the circle is set and entered the outer circle and then the inner one.
But as soon as I stepped into the inner one it was as if my skull had become a pressure-cooker - the feeling of pressure and pain was overwhelming and I had to get out of there pronto.
Until this experience, I'd rather scoffed at those who attach mystical purposes to these places, but now I'm not so sure at all..........
(this is NOT just made-up for Halloween - it's a true story, believe me !)
regards
David
Seascale, Cumbria, UK
On 31 October 2010 17:32, Chokh Raj
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What a parallelism -- unparalleled -- brings the subject to fruition!
Thanks,
CR
Reminds me of Eliot's
The Auditory Imagination:
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the feeling for syllable and rhythm penetrating far below the conscious
levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word; sinking to the
most primitive and forgotten, returning to the origin and bringing something
back, seeking the beginning and the end. It works through meanings,
certainly, or not without meanings in the ordinary sense, and fuses the
old and obliterated and the trite, the current, and the new and surprising,
the most ancient and the most civilized mentality. (118)
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Eliot,T.S. "Matthew Arnold." THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF
CRITICISM. London: Faber, 1933.
Cheers,
Peter
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: The Art of TS Eliot
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The Geometry of Stonehenge: pure poetry
Time to puzzle out the architectonics of Eliot's poetry!
CR
I believe the most recent and verifiable research indicates that Stonehenge was actually a place of worship/pilgrimage. The approaches have been investigated and shown as ceremonial ávenues' or suchlike which prepared the worshipper.
Mike
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: The Art of TS Eliot
I think man’s facility with using time as a discrete unit of experience has been around for a long, long time. Witness water clocks which I believe were introduced during the new kingdom of Egypt. Astronomical works such as what Stonehenge is reputed to be imply considerable familiarity with time as discrete units.
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Rhythm, which has been around since Ugh repeatedly knocked one piece of wood against another, uses discrete units of time.
As noted Newton introduced an abstract appreciation of time with his invention of differentiation in what was to become the Calculus.
Richard Seddon
Portales, NM
From: T. S. Eliot Discussion forum. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:07 PM
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Subject: Re: The Art of TS Eliot
I don’t know. That wasn’t brought up in the work I learned this from. It’s an interesting question though.
Carrol
From: T. S. Eliot Discussion forum. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Dillane
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:06 PM
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How did they play music ? pete
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