Date: Thu, 27 Aug 98 14:11 CST
Subject: Re: Shored/spelt'


 
This notion of the fragmentary may be thought in terms of Nietzsche's
eternal recurrence of the same.  Blanchot articulates it with excruciating
clarity in _The Step Not Beyond_ and _The Infinite Conversation_.
 
 
 
>		fragment still implies that something is missing, when
>indeed that is not the case.
>
 
something more exceeding the whole
 
 
 
>	One is not missing anything. Even when you miss a person, you are
>not fragmented thereby.what Was figure tothe ancient Greeks - as in the
>Orphic limbs being scattered	
 
			music not ever heard again
 
 becomes with Plato and the gang of logical
>literalists who follow him a literal event.
 
	or perhaps a literary one.
 
 A figure, as in a figure of
>speech, is neither a logical or literal event. It is presents a mental and
>physical state.
 
	What figure becomes with Osiris' missing limb?
 
 That is what the ancient Greeks so exciting. Or the
>middle age, they did not exist inside the foolish belief that the figure
>was literal. Which  makes them, to this day, so attractive, so sexy. Blake
>the poet seemed to inhabit this space...
>