“Hard lessons lately.”
— Bruce Springsteen
A belated meditation for Yom Kippur, which ended at sundown yesterday:
“Whatever the shatterings Hopkins felt threatened his and other sacred selves, perhaps precisely because of that threat, he composed the greatest passage on the God-relation of identity since Galatians 2:20….
The aesthetics of truth form alliances, profoundly elective affinities, that the intellect stripped of feeling inclines to reject…. Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.”
— Philip Rieff,
Sacred Order/Social Order, Vol. 1:
My Life among the Deathworks:
Illustrations of the
Aesthetics of Authority,
University of Virginia Press, 2006.
256 pages.