Propositions and Openings (26-49)

[26]   

There is being ancient and there is seeming ancient. There is being new and there is seeming new.               

[27]   

The city breeds mockery gods.               

[28]   

The gods are hilarious & mad.               

[29]   

The eerie way in which life and non-life co-inhabit the same phenomena; and that strange brink can always be present in a consciousness.             

[30]   

Views to which the response can’t be to emit light. The life force comes in all right, and its effect is to create discomposure.               

[31]   

The cultures rickety and thin, the island’s nature firm enough.               

[32]   

To have someone else love me, but not love myself.               

[33]   

Send a substitute to the war. Send a ghost to work: To bed.               

[34]   

A hidden god in the bourgeois world, omnipresent within the economic imperative.               

[35]   

Mythic gods are beans, beads or sacs. The numinous in bourgeois romanticism is diffused as from a burst sac.               

[36]   

Magic alters the inner voice, the voice that forms the self and the world. Alters language.               

[37]   

Clean fit of grief that gives energy.

[38]   

The monotheists are massing, to surrender the world.            

 [39]   

To encode something perennial; and enter Nature thereby.               

[40]   

Scientists are allowed to drive forward. Artists are called to explain the rudiments over and over, the people having been taught not to know them.               

[41]   

Memory in flood; its manner.               

[42]   

Deliberately loving all sorts of people.               

[43]   

Don’t use observation as evidence against faith. The two systems may be separate.  

When they co-exist in confluence and parallel running they mustn’t be taken to have fused.  

Exciting to sense them together and separate.  

[44]   

Powys had a cosmology of timeless flux in which identities, mythical and human (Gods and Men) were paramount – because such things (moments, objects) are what ride the flux.  

The world of the language, puritanical materialism, time, extent, monotheistic, treats identity as rubbish, even though minutely documented.      

[45]   

Birmingham is the product of Identity (2) and the breeder of ‘Anglicans’ (define) who couldn’t be generated by any other culture. (born in exile).  

[46]   

My job is to broaden my father’s bewildered looking out of his skull. Born in exile.               

[47]   

Driven. The Ship’s Orchestra is a hermetic work that couldn’t know what it had encoded in it.               

[48]   

Love mysticism, hate religion.               

[49]   

Distinguishable and possibly discrete trawls in experience, different in length, consistency &c.