CLOSED EYES . OPEN MIND

CLOSED EYES . OPEN MIND

Consider also:

  1. “His brow furrowed. It irritated him that he should have gone through this hideous process so long without stopping once to question it.”
  2. “The past is the cosmopolitan’s mother country, the universal fatherland, an endless library.”
  3. “Some of these rites were often attended with strange results. On several occasions we saw and felt a stranger among us, but when the lights were turned higher there was no one there. Our ceremonies had caused a being to take human form and be seen among us.”
  4. “For in penetrating to the higher mysteries he will see things which are concealed from ordinary humanity by the illusion of the senses. If the physical senses do not allow us to perceive the higher truth, they are for this very reason our benefactors. Things are thereby hidden from us which, if realized without due preparation, would throw us into unutterable consternation, and the sight of which would be unendurable.”
  5. “Language itself is haunted by the (sometimes unintentional) poetics of its own self-overcoming, by the subversive, the ‘erruption of the marvellous’. Life seems to conspire with this outsideness, such that even representation finally escapes representation.”