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"An expression that stands for a known thing remains a mere sign and is never a symbol. It is, therefore, quite impossible to create a living symbol, i.e., one that is pregnant with meaning, from known associations. For what is thus produced never contains more than was put into it." [J] Eat shit Magical Realism

"Perhaps there is room in the mind for contrary purposes, for contradictions, to exist side by side"
never doubting my 15 year old self again

"Whatever interests and occupies the mind takes the place of what is alien and as yet uninteresting. The shadows of thoughts in the mind dim the new perceptions." God he's a great writer

"[...] Jung's 'complex theory' and related ideas concerning psychic energy are not easy to comprehend from an exclusively pragmatic point of view. On the other hand, if one can admit to being open-minded enough to allow for the possible existence of demons, many difficulties in understanding the nature of complexes can be overcome."

Battling the ντεπρέσα: lovely eve putting critics into dialogue; thought I'd read [TW], but Swinburne disabused me; viz., btw,: "compressed rhetoric | heroic scorn | scornful intensity | compressed contempt | concentration of utterance" &c.

W: "He speaks w/ others' tongues, and hears men's suites / with others' ears"
"There's no more credit to be given to th'face / than to a sick man's urine" & ff. (out of chars.)

Writing out the incomprehensible two-page section 3.3 took five pages of single-spaced LaTex, not to mention cross-referencing with the coordinate section in [CLS], which is FORTY pages

Genuinely giving me fucking Stockholm syndrome

Commands metre and expression masterfully, with many fewer tags that any of his contemporaries I've read. In parts, as good as the best lyrics of the time. Made me feel something, which Lydgate could never.

Next time I see Peter I'm 'bouta be insufferable

I was shocked--SHOCKED I SAY--to discover that the great Panurge, while in enumerating the 211 qualities of the prophetic fool Triboulet with Pantagruel--a list spanning four pages--actually REPEATS HIMSELF!?!?: He calls Triboulet "A hooded fool,," TWICE!. At least he had the decency to make me laugh by calling him a big-ballocked fool (throwback to Book 3 Chapter 26 w/ its 171 types of "ballock ball-bags")