great posts Marsha - I haven't had much time to participate lately, but I've really been enjoying your posts of Octavio Paz and particularly enjoyed the selection from "In Light of India", I think I will read these as well myself. It was a nice parallel to Lila.
BTW to you and SA: dock is almost finished with a 400 sq. ft platform over the boat house which gives a stunning panoramic view of the bay. Every evening just after the sun sets - 3 sometimes 4 great blue herons fly low across the bay to go to their night time sleeping spots. A wonderful pattern... dreaming, I am awake awake I am dreaming dreaming I am awakened mm > > Thanks Ron, > > I think Paz's poems and essays are as you state 'beautiful and > profound'. The paragraph below seems so similar to Lila's comments > in Chapter 14, that I was stunned. I shouldn't have been, though, I > recognized Lila's words the first time I heard them. > > There was also a section in 'In Light of India', on time that was > very interesting. It seems that the Western/modernity conception of > time is not held universally. And there's a suggestion that there's > a link between time & religion. All very, very interesting!!! > > I've ordered another Paz book, 'The Double Flame: Love and > Eroticism'. That should be interesting too. Love is not a topic > that get much attention on this forum. > > Marsha > No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.8/1289 - Release Date: 2/20/2008 10:26 AM Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
