Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:33:04 -0700
Subject: Re: MB: Re: Orphic gaze
From: "Carin Christy" <carinsteve-AT-earthlink.net>


my little thought

Orpheus, the concentration of artistry, the ideal artist, cannot help but
look... is not satisfied by the promise that life with Eurydice provides
-would sooner destroy it than resist the object & subject of his desire and
art.
If the artist believes in and pursues ideals of art, ideals of love,
perhaps, s/he will always be disappointed and foiled by material existence.

Orpheus, torn apart by the naiads and dispersed by the sea, is the artistic
impulse, the destructive aspect of creativity, the ultimate artist who
always and completely fails, who destroys his vision by manifesting it, and
destroys the manifestation by loving the vision too much.
-s
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>From: James Deangelo <jdeangel-AT-twcny.rr.com>
>To: blanchot-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: MB: Re: Orphic gaze
>Date: Mon, Apr 9, 2001, 4:07 PM
>

> Just a side-note on Orpheus:
> I've recently been thinking of Orpheus and the question of desire--Orpheus
> inability to fix his gaze on the object of his desire.   Orpheus can never
> both see and have Euridyce.
> I don't knoe if that will help at all.  It's just a fledgling of a thought.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yuri gargarin" <yurigargarin-AT-hotmail.com>
> To: <blanchot-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:51 AM
> Subject: MB: Orphic gaze
>
>
>> hi everybody. I wonder if somebody could shed some light on Blanchot's
>> appropriation of the myth of Orpheus.
>> thx
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