Re: Eyes Wide Shut (Minor correction)

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:50  16/04/01 -0500, you wrote:


>Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> >  "The Scholar Gipsy."
>
>I meant "Dover Beach."
>
>Carrol



Ah Carroll,

I had my finger on the Send button and this came through.  I thought I had
you!! I was saying to myself 'Old age has set in.  He broke more than his
wrist!'


I love the ending of Dover Beach.  I hear what you are saying and feminists
have made much of the role of women as consolation for a world largely
created by men.  Still there is locked away inside this particular mystical
shell - a kernel and it is quite Blochian in its hinting at the possibility
of hope.  The personal love and trust that the poem articulates amidst its
despair is a sign showing us that  we are capable as a species of standing
up (Bloch's phrase) and being better.

regards

Gary