tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493101396674767317.post1354328234054827354..comments2023-10-17T10:29:57.984-04:00Comments on The Screaming Pope: The SilenceFrancishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981546907877838890noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493101396674767317.post-9514307195700989012010-05-31T22:43:49.013-04:002010-05-31T22:43:49.013-04:00doing a frequency distribution analysis of the abo...doing a frequency distribution analysis of the above post I note the word "infinite" appears twice. I feel chastened,but curiously disburdened by this insinsuation of the infinite. I know my dear friend Almoni, but Mahler, who are you?SPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493101396674767317.post-13004531310906724872010-05-30T11:44:53.347-04:002010-05-30T11:44:53.347-04:00What about silent communion? Wordless understandin...What about silent communion? Wordless understanding? The glance full of meaning? The pregnant pause? Silence isn't always so solitary. Some of our moments of greatest intimacy are silent. And if you're into yoga or Beaudelaire, there's communing with the infinite -- or trying to. Entends ma chere, entends la douce nuit qui marche.Mahlers5thhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511704290540257618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493101396674767317.post-5375086087303412592010-05-29T23:22:40.432-04:002010-05-29T23:22:40.432-04:00Great Streets of silence led away /
To Neighborho...Great Streets of silence led away / <br />To Neighborhoods of Pause - / <br />Here was no Notice - no Dissent / <br />No Universe - no Laws - // <br />By Clocks, 'twas Morning, and for Night / <br />The Bells at Distance called - <br />But Epoch had no basis here / <br />For Period exhaled.<br /><br />--Emily Dickinson<br /><br />Thanks, Francis, for putting your finger squarely upon one of the key sources of power in Emily Dickinson's poetry. But silence harbors something far greater than violence: silence is the container of the Infinite & the Void, which in turn enclose the twin powers of Creation & Destruction, like entwined seeds of light & darkness. On the scale of these powers, violence is a negligible & passing disturbance, no more significant than the impulse to build an empire -- & just as ephemeral.Peloni Almoninoreply@blogger.com