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Shane Williamson
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Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, the masters of song and of opera are to countless performers, however amateur, to countless listeners, tutelary presences. They are the custodians and initiators into felt intimations of open horizons, of well-springs of recuperation and self-surpassing for a constricted and worn humanity. (63)
— Jan 01, 2025 08:17AM
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Shane Williamson
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"...a good reading falls short of the text or art object by a distance, by a perimeter of inadequacy which are themselves luminous as is the corona around the darkened sun." (173)
— Dec 01, 2025 08:44PM
Shane Williamson
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Religious thought and practice metaphorize, make narrative images of, the rendezvous of the human psyche with absolute otherness, with the strangeness of evil or the deeper strangeness of grace. (147)
— Apr 27, 2025 06:29AM
Shane Williamson
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All speech and writing after the initial Logos-act, after the first and all-creating Word, are more or less superfluous reiteration or epilogue. (118-19)
— Apr 24, 2025 09:03PM
Shane Williamson
is on page 121 of 236
Texts, works of art, merely trans-form other texts and other works of art in a reticulative and spiralling continuum across time. The informing fabric, common to all, is that of the medium and of available conventions. (118)
— Apr 24, 2025 08:57PM
Shane Williamson
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There is no purity in poiesis. Metaphysical, political, social interests and concealments are at work throughout. (117)
— Apr 24, 2025 08:54PM
Shane Williamson
is on page 88 of 236
"...only death is outside discourse." (88)
— Jan 15, 2025 07:14AM
