Showing posts with label halos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halos. Show all posts
1.26.2003
1.02.2003
HG TREATISE # 12235b ON HALOS
"Poetry IS like unto a halo, in that
b. it encircleth back unto itself much like a riddle of the Sphinx or the destiny of Oedgar Alley (d'd) Puss;
d. thus its magnitude is bothy enrichethed by its consequent danger (like unto that which faceth and embodieth yon Narcissus
q. or other yon self-regarding tragique incestuousities;
a. all of the above;
#12 (center) and what quoth Socrates maketh Poetry to encircleth back unto itself? Why, he says to himself, it be the marriage of sound and sense, belike; that which pleaseth & entranceth in the very sound of the volubles; the mindlesse mutteringes of the streame's ongoingnessiveness, not That for whence it cometh or goeth, as t'would any a Reasonable intelligence. Therefore get thee hence O Babbler Brooke, outside, beyond yon Serial walles of Athens!"
O, Socky.
"Poetry IS like unto a halo, in that
b. it encircleth back unto itself much like a riddle of the Sphinx or the destiny of Oedgar Alley (d'd) Puss;
d. thus its magnitude is bothy enrichethed by its consequent danger (like unto that which faceth and embodieth yon Narcissus
q. or other yon self-regarding tragique incestuousities;
a. all of the above;
#12 (center) and what quoth Socrates maketh Poetry to encircleth back unto itself? Why, he says to himself, it be the marriage of sound and sense, belike; that which pleaseth & entranceth in the very sound of the volubles; the mindlesse mutteringes of the streame's ongoingnessiveness, not That for whence it cometh or goeth, as t'would any a Reasonable intelligence. Therefore get thee hence O Babbler Brooke, outside, beyond yon Serial walles of Athens!"
O, Socky.
from the Notes section of "Bouma Shapes":
"The theory developed by Saint Thomas in his short treatise on halos is instructive in this regard. The beatitude of the chosen, he argues, includes all the goods that are necessary for the perfect workings of human nature, and therefore nothing essential can be added. There is, however, something that can be added in surplus (superaddi), an 'accidental reward that is added to the essential', that is not necessary for beatitude and does not alter it substantially, but simply makes it more brilliant (clarior). The halo is this supplement added to perfection - something like the vibration of that which is perfect, the glow at its edges."
- Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, 54-55
"The theory developed by Saint Thomas in his short treatise on halos is instructive in this regard. The beatitude of the chosen, he argues, includes all the goods that are necessary for the perfect workings of human nature, and therefore nothing essential can be added. There is, however, something that can be added in surplus (superaddi), an 'accidental reward that is added to the essential', that is not necessary for beatitude and does not alter it substantially, but simply makes it more brilliant (clarior). The halo is this supplement added to perfection - something like the vibration of that which is perfect, the glow at its edges."
- Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, 54-55
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