Practical Magic
“They don’t understand
what it is to be awake,
To be living
on several planes at once
Though one cannot speak
with several voices at once.”
what it is to be awake,
To be living
on several planes at once
Though one cannot speak
with several voices at once.”
— T. S. Eliot,
The Family Reunion
Several voices:
Margaret Wertheim in today’s
Los Angeles Times and at
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace,
Linda Dalrymple Henderson, and
Madeleine L’Engle and husband.
From Wertheim’s Pearly Gates:
“There is such a thing
as a tesseract.”
Then of course, there’s just plain old “Wickedness”.
“Every day is a great crisis for our society.” She was being flip, answering him in the terms men use. Dear thick thing, he didn’t hear the irony in her voice.
“We stand at a crossroads. Idolatry looms. Traditional values in jeopardy. Truth under siege and virtue abandoned.”
Comment by BlueCollarGoddess — Monday, March 3, 2008 @ 12:42 am