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From: Charles Moyer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:14:38 -0500
To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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Subject: Re: ALA panels, etc.
I agree with you that the Eludesinian mysteries' telos, whatever it was, was
not based on the salvation of an individual's soul. In fact it more likely
could have been a calendaric phenomena unfolded on the autumn equinox
threshing floor started long before a Jebusite Jerusalem was founded around
the same. You know, old chap, corn dollies and all in the Telesterion. The
theta and the delta show much in common as in "thalos" and "dalos",
"thyrsus" and "drus" and then there is R. Graves. Unfortunately he and Pound
were never on good terms. They both missed out.
That said perhaps the line should go-
"Averroes which way in a vacuum?"
Would it have been Kung who had his head up in a vacuum?
But by way of aperient?
"They'll no get him in a good solid bowel
Though they chew it cudingly"
> From: Robert Kibler <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:28:46 -0600
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> Subject: Re: ALA panels, etc.
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> It is that letting in of the Arab commentators that I would suggest is key. A
> Christian understanding of Aristotle, as offered by Aquinas in express
> repudiation of the Averroist interpretation, is quite different. Among other
> things, the former allows for, even demands the eternality of individual
> souls, whereas Averroes asserts just the opposite. Much like the Eleusinian
> mysteries produced in the participants an epoptea that is generic, not
> individual--and thus more in keeping, I think, with Pounds idea of
> transcendence. Conceptual. Communal, even if conditioned by and recognized by
> the individuated mind.
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>
> The person of excellence understands what is moral.
> The petty person understands what is profitable.
> "Analects" IV.16, Confucius
>
> Robert E. Kibler, Ph.D.
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