As you know, this **was** a hard go for me--though I think as much because of the way I was forced to read it as from the work itself. And, I think I'm better, in general, with things from Greer that can be consumed in small doses. And yet, when I got to the last portion of "Unleaving," I was really dazzled.
There is something very Mandos-like about the work, actually. The same sort of inexorability, which I actually kind of fear. I like a bolt hole, I like the notion of being able to hide, but from Mandos, or in Greer's world, there's no hiding.
I would like to think/hear more about Annie Dillard's idea about death being personal. Does she mean it just in the sense that, for any individual, death is personal? Or does she mean it in a larger sense, do you think? Or maybe I should ask, how does it seem, from your reading of her?
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Re: a hard go
Date: 2009-12-08 05:15 pm (UTC)There is something very Mandos-like about the work, actually. The same sort of inexorability, which I actually kind of fear. I like a bolt hole, I like the notion of being able to hide, but from Mandos, or in Greer's world, there's no hiding.
I would like to think/hear more about Annie Dillard's idea about death being personal. Does she mean it just in the sense that, for any individual, death is personal? Or does she mean it in a larger sense, do you think? Or maybe I should ask, how does it seem, from your reading of her?