Re: beauty
Posted by Polly Quigley on July 11, 2001 at 07:37:18:
In Reply to: Re: beauty posted by c owen on January 07, 2001 at 19:32:15:
To C Owen...I like the suggestion you make. I too have frequently noticed
and commented on this dual treatment in J's work but on the scholarly front
I dont know if anyone has made the clarifying and definitive argument on it.
J's proposal however does raise some troublesome epistemological issues dont
you think. The transhuman magnificence must not be too terribly "above and
beyond us" otherwise J and his readers could not access it. A better dualism
which I think J might approve of would be between those who think and those
who don't. Death, sex and beauty work on some humans, move them around like
puppets in a platonic scene, but J is claiming that he (and by implication
some of his readers at least) can knowingly ride on these forces, on the
tidal fires of creation
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