Jerome Griswold on a poem by Wallace Stevens:
Santayana says, “The suasion of sanity is physical:
if you cut your animal traces, you run mad”….
The reference is to
"the penultimate chapter of Scepticism and Animal Faith
( 'XXVI. Discernment of Spirit')."
An animal trace related to the previous post —
Griswold reportedly died on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.