"The deepest core of life is poetry and symbol." - Dane Rudhyar
Tag Archives: Saramago
Sense and Meaning
“Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense cannot stay still, it seethes with second, third and … Continue reading
Posted in Quotations
Tagged "All the Names", Borges, butterfly, Chuang Tzu, dream, meaning, Saramago, sense
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Symbolism of the Island
1.“Theseus is cruel because he leaves Ariadne on the island of Naxos. … Just a beach lashed by thundering waves, an abstract place where only the seaweed moves. It is the island where no one lives, the place where obsession … Continue reading
Posted in Islands
Tagged archetypes, Atlantis, Calypso, Carl Gustav Jung, desert island, Greek myth, Island, Lost, mythology, Odysseus, Ogygia, Saramago, Source, symbolism, symbols, The Tale of the Unknown Island
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