Rieff expresses this thinking as follows: Culture and sacred order are inseparable, the former the registration of the latter as a systemic expression of the practical relation between humans and the shadow aspect of reality as it is lived.
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“For heart that is pitiless counteth not the power that pity hath, of which stern anger may be forged and a lightning kindled before which mountains fall.”
― The Fall of Gondolin
― The Fall of Gondolin
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