“What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman? Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.”
James Joyce, “Ulysses”
"The deepest core of life is poetry and symbol." - Dane Rudhyar
Like Symbol Reader on Facebook
-
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
Meta
Reblogged this on lampmagician and commented:
♥♥♥
LikeLike
Hypnotic writing & a beautiful image to accompany. A wonderful thing to discover early here at the screen!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you! I love to discover your comments.
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a painting! It seems as though the earth has penetrated her, as seen through the transparencies, and everything keeps on working, in spite of her human form!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Divine feminine if I could ever imagine one. Thank you, Maria.
LikeLike
The luminous lunessence suffuses through and by her. Beautiful image.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Beautifully put. Lunessence sounds so lovely.
LikeLike
Hi Monika, What do you understand by the phrase “surviving successive tellurian generations”?
LikeLike
Hello Donna,
I think tellurian means relating to the earth and its long history divided into eras. Scientists have now established that the moon is 4.47 billion years old.
LikeLike
I’m sorry but I’m not following the thought. Earth history, eras, moon’s age?
LikeLike
What I’m guessing is that he is talking about the moon witnessing and overseeing the earth’s development through the ages.
LikeLike
ah. I get it. Thank you. The image is beautiful, Monika.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Happy to hear. ☺
LikeLike