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...civilization and the other older containers. You've got to go very far out. In this sense, the people who really understand electronic technology, bio feedback, new forms of consciousness where you don't have to keep up by reading 36,000 books a year are the mystics. Seemingly you move away from culture and technology and become a world-denying mystic. But in reality-in a spiral-you are coming back into the heart of the post-technological culture...
...story is told in countless versions. Somebody-a saintly rabbi, a mystic caught up in holy ecstasy, even in one version a lost astronaut-chances to see God face to face and lives to tell about it. "What is God really like?" asks an anxious crowd back home. The narrator hesitates. "You'll be shocked," he warns. He is pressed further. "Well," he finally says, "to begin with, she's black...
Died. Kenneth Patchen, 60, poet of protean passions; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif. Sometimes compared to Whitman and Blake for its visionary quality, Patchen's work since the 1930s has been alternately described as Freudian, surrealistic, Marxist and mystic. Always evident was the poet's abhorrence of violence...
Furtwängler was totally different -a very Germanic, mystic type who managed to impose his almost religious view of music on the players. This resulted in absolutely superb performances too. During the '20s and '30s, Furtwängler and Toscanini were the greatest conductors. Now Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan are the greatest, and in somewhat the same way, with Solti comparable to Toscanini and Karajan to Furtwangler...
...author's note, Forster writes that the inspiration for the novel arose from a 1913 visit to an evangelical mystic named Edward Carpenter. One of Carpenter's apostles gently touched Forster's backside, and the touch "seemed to go straight through the small of my back into my ideas." Only those who can read that without a smile will be able to appreciate Maurice. The distance between the Edwardian love that dared not speak its name and the rhetoric of the Gay Liberation Front is simply too great...