Yes, good comment, it is back to front. But that's Burgess for you - an often frustrating and irritating writer, yet a man who had a vision and a style and an almost prophetic insight into the direction and drift of modern society. 'The Wanting Seed' (1966) is particularly interesting in this respect. 'Earthly Powers' (1980) too from a Church perspective. He's a fellow Mancunian as well, so I'll forgive him anything pretty much 😁
The deepest level of communication
is not communication,
but communion.
It is wordless.
It is beyond words.
It is beyond speech.
It is beyond concept.
Not that we discover a new unity, but we discover an old unity.
My dear brothers and sisters, we are already one.
But we imagine we are not.
And what we have to recover is our original unity.
What we have to be, is what we are.
- Thomas Merton
> 'Beyond God,' said Hillier, 'lies the concept of God.
This seems to be back to front.
The concept (Hegel's "Begriff") is merely a handle, a grace, a morsel of daily bread to sustain us as we walk "the magic length of God".
Yes, good comment, it is back to front. But that's Burgess for you - an often frustrating and irritating writer, yet a man who had a vision and a style and an almost prophetic insight into the direction and drift of modern society. 'The Wanting Seed' (1966) is particularly interesting in this respect. 'Earthly Powers' (1980) too from a Church perspective. He's a fellow Mancunian as well, so I'll forgive him anything pretty much 😁
> Don't you think we'd all rather see devil-worship than bland neutrality?
Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.