“‘You may perish out of your senses, but not out of your memory or imagination.’” #wirn

Almost every time symbolism is mentioned in this Emerson biography, C.S. Lewis pops up; I keep hoping that Robbie-Grillet will have his say again, but the index confirms that he will not.

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“…’Potato Magnetism.’” #wirn

#Saer

“…’particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts.’ This latter, in its deceptive simplicity, is not just a step in a demonstration. It is a metaphysic, the fundamental religious view of the world that holds that nature and we ourselves are the great allegory.” #ibid

“With the utmost simplicity, logic, and compression (which the typesetter of NATURE misapprehended and bungled in the first edition), Emerson moves from the proposition that ‘words are signs of natural facts’ to the further proposition that…

“…Murat grimly noted that should the North ever force emancipation, then the ‘finest edifice raised by man, the American Confederation, would be broken up.’” #wirn