Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:17:36 -0400
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Mot du jour


George Trail wrote:

> 
> The Tennyson poem that Reg remembers vaguely is The Kraken. I like to
> think
> it was Tennyson prefiguring the id in a notion of spiritual evolution
> that
> was called the temporalizing of the Chain (of Being). Here it is.
> 
> Below the thunders of the upper deep,
> Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
> His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
> The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
> About his shadowy sides; above him swell
> Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
> And far away into the sickly light,
> >From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
> Unnumbered and enormous polypi
> Winnow with giant arms the slumbring green.
> There he hath lain for ages, and will lie
> Battening on huge sea worms in his sleep,
> Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
> Then once by man and angels to be seen,
> In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
> 
> Man is a poet. Catch the "abysmal." Cool.
> 
	Thanks George 

Reg (feeling less Alzheimerish) Lilly
Skidmore
rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu