WRITING TOWARD THE BLOOM IN THE GENOME

photo credit House of Doves

FACING THE UNRESTRAINED

Listen, my heart, as only saints have listened: until the gigantic call lifted them off the ground
                     ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies/First Elegy


Pretty Pretender, thy artisan, soul-making
neither fails nor achieves in the same way
as this world of facts

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notes 

We conceptualize self in terms of dynamic multiplicity of relatively autonomous I positions in an imaginal landscape.  The I has the possibility to move, as in a space, from one position to another in accordance with changes in situation and time.  The I fluctuates among different and even opposed positions.  The I has the capacity to imaginatively endow each position with a voice so that dialogical relations between positions can be established.  The voices function like interacting characters in a story.  --Hermans, Kempen & van Loon, "The Dialogical Self"   

THE RHYTHM OF EPIC

Homeric Musing  /Flaxman Design, 1899
see Homer, Iliad, Samuel Butler translation
http://www.ganino.com/the_iliad_by_homer_6

HIS WYRD

strict yet
flexible fate
Homer's dactyl

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notes

1. see Rodney Merrill, Translating The Odyssey
http://home.earthlink.net/~merrill_odyssey/id5.html