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>  'the modern awakening to symbols as decorative while
>  their meaning is some place else'
>
>  Please would you expand on this?
 
I said this in regard to the fragmentation in Mauberley and The Waste Land.
Disintegration of Christianity.
No circulating myth.
Frobenius, "We have lost the world of living magic."
No longer is there a sustaining base of belief to draw from for metaphor or
metaphysics.
So although the culture will continue to have Dionysian awakenings the
symbols used to express these will be, to quote Frobenius again, "old forms
(that) are no more than shadows on the horizon, whose fascination we can
guess at but not feel."
i.e. decorative (used pejoratively
 
Maybe I became too decorative in my own meaning.
Zachary Dempster