tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post3480194776646285146..comments2024-03-28T13:37:26.314-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: The Sea Rises HigherGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-61396518913722822132016-05-06T22:24:35.966-04:002016-05-06T22:24:35.966-04:00Elmer O'Brien's translation "The Esse...Elmer O'Brien's translation "The Essential Plotinus" put out by Hackett Publishing. <br /><br />Got interested in him by a discussion by Michael Grant in his "The Climax of Rome". Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-64464632971716567482016-05-05T22:41:27.892-04:002016-05-05T22:41:27.892-04:00Are you? Plotinus is one of my favorites. What a...Are you? Plotinus is one of my favorites. What are you reading?Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-15128293077991218752016-05-05T21:20:12.481-04:002016-05-05T21:20:12.481-04:00Oh, I hear you. Just reading Musonius the other da...Oh, I hear you. Just reading Musonius the other day. And I'm trying to digest Plotinus at the moment. Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-55651661371980590762016-05-05T00:28:05.235-04:002016-05-05T00:28:05.235-04:00Bear in mind that you're talking to a man who ...Bear in mind that you're talking to a man who usually reaches back to Aristotle. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-70959742090147978802016-05-04T20:40:57.923-04:002016-05-04T20:40:57.923-04:00Curious that you go back before World War I for th...Curious that you go back before World War I for that. Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-68116156637213311372016-05-04T10:49:42.575-04:002016-05-04T10:49:42.575-04:00That's right.That's right. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-78240276335812438302016-05-04T10:47:59.679-04:002016-05-04T10:47:59.679-04:00And if the see and sky be foes,
We'll tame the...And if the see and sky be foes,<br />We'll tame the sea and sky.<br />Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-79428538252933031532016-05-04T10:08:29.725-04:002016-05-04T10:08:29.725-04:00Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The ...Turning and turning in the widening gyre<br /> The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br /> Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br /> Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br /> The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br /> The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br /> The best lack all conviction, while the worst<br /> Are full of passionate intensity.<br /><br /> Surely some revelation is at hand;<br /> Surely the Second Coming is at hand.<br /> The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<br /> When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<br /> Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;<br /> A shape with lion body and the head of a man,<br /> A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<br /> Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it<br /> Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. <br /><br /> The darkness drops again but now I know<br /> That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br /> Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<br /> And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<br /> Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? <br /><br />William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"Joel Leggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588696436907032078noreply@blogger.com