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What Time means, what Space is, what the Sea mirrors is more than Virginia Woolf can say: but that they are, that they mean and mirror some Reality measureless to man is the whole import of her writing...
Time is as measureless as space...
...vulture eye--"a place blue eye, with a film over it"...blood--"bleeding at the pores with dissolution"...the ghastly laughter of a drunken man walled in alive in a dank corner of the catacombs...the hot metal walls of a chamber converging to force a victim into a measureless pit--these objects of horror entered the world when a pale-browed, black-haired dreamer took another half-bottle a hundred years ago. He was a precocious lad. Scarcely out of diapers, he stood on a table declaiming verse, inspired by a glass of liquor. Later trips to the bottle...
...concerning the St. Matthew Passion. "The deepest expression of devotional feeling that the art of music affords," is the description which critics attempt to elaborate. Lawrence Gilman, able critic of the N. Y. Herald-Tribune, mentioned "pages of sorrowful, solacing tenderness, with their transported beauty, their touching devoutness, their measureless humanity...
...that Author Lowes is a scholar and an artist, as well as a keen literary detective. All the mad metaphors, the wild and cloudy symbols of two great poems are traced back through Coleridge's labyrinthine mind to the illuminating confusion of an almost illegible scrapbook. The caverns measureless to man are charted and fingerposted. The sun rises on dark castles and the sunless...