Edmund
@Kulambq
📚 'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience' (2023) and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey
My book has been published. A very very happy day. 'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience' cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-…
Learning poetry by heart will save your soul.
What’s an unpopular opinion you believe is genuinely true?
James Joyce had a strong Jesuit background, attending Clongowes (1888–1891), Belvedere College (1893–1898), and the Catholic University (1899–1902), all institutions linked to GM Hopkins. Hopkins had taught at the Catholic University from 1884 to 1889 and made a retreat at…
'The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.' John…
It's a wonder they spelled his name correctly.
I know, instantly, that Shakespeare didn’t write this, without having to look it up. The ability to know this without consulting any sources is an ability that will be decimated by reliance on AI.
'Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.' Marcel Proust
One of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of music every made. 'There, beyond the village, stands a hurdy-gurdy player; with numb fingers he plays as best he can.' youtube.com/watch?v=sIIS-U…
If you've never read 'The Hound of Heaven' by Francis Thompson' out loud, you've done yourself a great disservice. You can rectify that though. 'Adown Titanic glooms of chasmèd fears.' How can you not chant this out loud?
'I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter.' Francis Thompson
Off-grid social media influencer. How is that not an oxymoron?
Off grid social media influencer breaks down about how terrible off grid life is. He thought it would be exciting, but it is just lonely and boring. He is now selling his Homestead.