tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post7804274249120537434..comments2023-09-15T01:33:18.857-07:00Comments on Humble Musings of a Literary Kind: Dragon-Tamers, Dante's Inferno and the Writer as Literary Navigator Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18156605759733149704noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post-64646399993619145292013-06-05T07:04:21.770-07:002013-06-05T07:04:21.770-07:00Dearest Marta,
Thank you for your perusal of my hu...Dearest Marta,<br />Thank you for your perusal of my humble musing and your lovely commentary. Your thoughts regarding Hades are intriguing indeed - being trapped in the mire and muck (with hopeful progression to Purgatory at the least?) Perhaps we are rescued when our works successfully connect with another, perhaps it is our readers that draw us out of the dark?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18156605759733149704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post-55919041364278039162013-06-05T07:02:15.157-07:002013-06-05T07:02:15.157-07:00Blissful contributions Shari! This has me ponderin...Blissful contributions Shari! This has me pondering on the evolution of the literary voice...but that is another musing.... Wolfe's words are sublime indeed, and provoke further thoughts on the literary path traveled by both author and reader. Thank you for your kind visit Shari, and your wonderful wonderful comment inscribed on the electronic wall behind you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18156605759733149704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post-82466189322256731702013-06-04T04:31:05.923-07:002013-06-04T04:31:05.923-07:00Dear PJ, the depth of your musings imbues writers ...Dear PJ, the depth of your musings imbues writers with hopes of immortality at the same time as it delicately points to scriveners, another category altogether. Your descent into the circles of Hell is a modern Divine Comedy, out of which your author-hero emerges wielding the elixir of true creation. Let me add that sometimes we venture into Hades, another conception of the Underworld, where we remain prisoners of the dark unless a bold spirit comes to our rescue. And yet in the dark we create for others to bask in the light that has been denied to our tortured souls. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15249891006083336192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post-49346355281754000632013-06-03T08:40:44.653-07:002013-06-03T08:40:44.653-07:00My dear PJ, this beautiful musing sends me on Dant...My dear PJ, this beautiful musing sends me on Dante's epic journey of life, death and redemption, of which you so eloquently expounded, that every author must travail and the reader must travel in a literary work of universal meaning and transformative quality. Your piece has left me in wonder and reminiscent of Thomas Wolfe's *You Cant' Go Home Again.* Once we make that plunge into the outer world of brightness, darkness and other unknowns, there is no way to go but forward, no turning back, only to emerge a different soul:<br /><br />“There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.” <br /><br />― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again<br /><br />It seems that everyone must travel through their own "Inferno" in the journey of life, while many literary greats portray the stories of such great journeys; and Wolfe supports the notion that we cannot retreat to former days, for once we are changed, the evolution requires an ascendance in our thinking and being:<br /><br />“Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: '[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.'” <br /><br />― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again<br />Shari LeKanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05764921433989389867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post-90625974027072482122013-06-01T11:39:19.067-07:002013-06-01T11:39:19.067-07:00Dearest Dana - such praise from a writer of your c...Dearest Dana - such praise from a writer of your caliber humbles me indeed - and inspires and elevates further efforts! I have always thought Dante's Inferno to be lushly gorgeous in a muck and mire kind of way...thank you my dear for visiting my musing and taking the trouble to leave your blissful comment!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18156605759733149704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post-56622419328503119412013-06-01T11:35:01.362-07:002013-06-01T11:35:01.362-07:00Thank you for being so kind as to stop by and read...Thank you for being so kind as to stop by and read my musings - for what, indeed, is a writer without a reader? Thank you for your support and encouragement, and your lovely comment - all of which is greatly appreciated.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18156605759733149704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post-17166744821697281582013-06-01T02:30:40.288-07:002013-06-01T02:30:40.288-07:00Dearest PJ, your musing to the reader is like a jo...Dearest PJ, your musing to the reader is like a journey through the blissful shaded Elysian Fields where literary giants reside. No Stygian marshes here, no "winged monsters" or "flaming tombs", but the tranquil rustle of tree leaves and the sough of the Okeanos. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03694693604571313152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925449466467205516.post-31943587461401100342013-05-31T16:38:01.468-07:002013-05-31T16:38:01.468-07:00As always a delightful post, PJ. Your blog is one ...As always a delightful post, PJ. Your blog is one I read each time with pleasure, learning as I go about those works of literature I have omitted to read. I marvel at your ability to put your ideas into words, making the prose sing as if the music of the poetic is all there is in existence.<br />Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com