Weirdelves wrote:I never looked up the Castlemaine she was referencing because I secretly hoped it was the small town in Kerry, Ireland near to where I was born (Killarney), I knew it wouldn't be but I enjoyed entertaining the fantasy. So thanks, Steve, for ruining my dreams
YOU SHOULD'VE KNOWN
doublewuzzy wrote:I may be reading too far into this, but I'm still reading that book about philosophy, and it's talking about Spinoza and his idea that God is the world, rather than God existing apart from the world, which is an idea he got from St. Paul, who said "In him we live and move and have our being." That reminds me of Emily - "loving him, we move within his borders" (though "him" could be their father).
Because lips libertine and venal had murmured such words to him, he believed but little in the candour of hers; exaggerated speeches hiding mediocre affections must be discounted; as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
rainbowdash wrote:There are many works that I feel Ys echoes, but I can't produce solid blocks of words to compare, just general feelings.
Her description of landscapes at first reminded me greatly of Flannery O'Connor, especially the "mountains kneeling felten and gray", but perhaps I just automatically come up with these similarities from reading O'Connor so much.
Ann wrote:rainbowdash wrote:There are many works that I feel Ys echoes, but I can't produce solid blocks of words to compare, just general feelings.
Her description of landscapes at first reminded me greatly of Flannery O'Connor, especially the "mountains kneeling felten and gray", but perhaps I just automatically come up with these similarities from reading O'Connor so much.
Right around the time I discovered Joanna was also the time I read all of Flannery O'Conner's shorts. I didn't notice any overt similarities, but maybe that's why I love both so much.
Until we reach the open country
A-steeped in milk and honey
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_c ... -Honey.htmWhen G‑d spoke to Moses at the burning bush, He informed him that He would redeem the Israelites and bring them to a "good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey..."...Thus, a "land flowing with milk and honey" is indicative and symptomatic of a greater good—the fertility of the Promised Land.
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