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[i-am karin]

its a short book & short chapter and the bibliography & notes are
extensive with many of the sources in italian (sigh.)  some translations

used.

 a lovely quote - will share:
"man is dead and the angel is risen or, rather, the fallen angel is dead

and a man is born."  (i can forgive the gender yet i wonder would it
work for me if the gender was fem?)
  the quote is from some guy named Marino Marinin.  never heard of him
but that's nothing new.

i will quote this book directly because it's been eating at my head -
maybe others might want to take a stab at it ---
"However, this is not the angel of history, but rather the
messenger/interpretor who is proported to have existed somewhere between

the sensorial domain of historical experience and the cold abstraction
of the ratio-logical mind set.  But this moribund angel has its own
perspective and it retains traces of human cognition, in the way that
the pale memory of angelic vision is entombed in the human psyche.  "

some thoughts:  i remember reading the bible & thinking that as a manual

of psychology it worked very well - lottsa levels actually re conduct of

the human in the world.  i also remember thinking big omission re actual

abiding love for "the land" as in environment.  but this is in
retrospect.  it also seemed to me there are a range of ways to interpret

anything - from literal (ie- the fundamentalists with jesus as a man
thank you) and there are ideas re what jesus and the etceteras are about

(to love one another - principles, ideals, values not necessarily "body"

but as expressions through, what one could aspire too.)

years ago when i was reading the studies on teaching kids re left brain
right brain & studying my students - i remember how amazed i was at
those who literally couldn't "abstract" - ie - simple metaphors like
rain falling in sheets.

so collilli hearkens back to a time when presumably the general culture
was more "concrete" in orientation.   i think he's talking about an
inbetween state where there was an ability to abstract but in a concrete

way, or as i observed in my students, the ability to move from the
concrete to the abstract.  seems simple. blake was like that. he
literally created a psycho-theologic-like theory of psyche operations -
a sort of landscape of people & events telling truth as he experienced
it.  Blake is a heavy read unless there's a code book on hand- yet very
enjoyable.

maybe- our present and  perennial desire to think "out of the box, open
the doors of perception, pushing envelopes," etc. etc. etc.  is behind
this.  i wonder if he's really going to tell anything new, or surprise
me.  maybe just a deepening.  i'd be happy with that.

source: The angel's corpse by paul collili, St. martin's press 1999.

porculus wrote:

> > that she does not smile
>
> on voit bien que c'est pas le genre à qui on casse les kouyes
>
> palais-tokyo \\ + qu'hier et bien - que demain