“Nuvoletta in her lightdress, spunn of sisteen shimmers,
was looking down on them, leaning over the bannistars….
Fuvver, that Skand, he was up in Norwood’s sokaparlour….”
— Finnegans Wake
To counteract the darkness of today’s 2:01 AM entry—
Part I— Artist Josefine Lyche describes her methods—
A— “Internet and hard work”
B— “Books, both fiction and theory”
Part II— I, too, now rely mostly on the Internet for material. However, like Lyche, I have Plan B— books.
Where I happen to be now, there are piles of them. Here is the pile nearest to hand, from top to bottom.
(The books are in no particular order, and put in the same pile for no particular reason.)
- Philip Rieff— Sacred Order/Social Order, Vol. I: My Life Among the Deathworks
- Dennis L. Weeks— Steps Toward Salvation: An Examination of Coinherence and Substitution in the Seven Novels of Charles Williams
- Erwin Panofsky— Idea: A Concept in Art Theory
- Max Picard— The World of Silence
- Walter J. Ong, S. J.— Hopkins, the Self, and God
- Richard Robinson— Definition
- X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, eds.— An Introduction to Poetry
- Richard J. Trudeau— The Non-Euclidean Revolution
- William T. Noon, S. J.— Joyce and Aquinas
- Munro Leaf— Four-and-Twenty Watchbirds
- Jane Scovell— Oona: Living in the Shadows
- Charles Williams— The Figure of Beatrice
- Francis L. Fennell, ed.— The Fine Delight: Centenary Essays on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Hilary Putnam— Renewing Philosophy
- Paul Tillich— On the Boundary
- C. S. Lewis— George MacDonald
Lyche probably could easily make her own list of what Joyce might call “sisteen shimmers.”
