Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says, "there was something pathetically indrawn and remote about him; he talked little to me or to anyone else... and almost from the outset I thought of him as some how having the air of a somnambulist, a sleepwalker." From the suggestion offered by this contact with a real person has grown, during the intervening years, a character who walks among the living in a spiritual sleep, passes through redemption in a dream voyage, and into physical death before the eyes of the audience...
...because he represents the final distillation of some of Aiken's pet ideas that Mr. Arcularis the person has so little impact on the reader. And yet the apparent thinness and elusiveness of the character are reasonable enough in the context of the play. As the curtain rises. Mr. Arcularis lies on the operating table in a surgical amphitheater, surrounded by doctors and nurses and watched by unseen medical students. Then Mr. Arcularis drifts into his ether dream, a strange, cold, ocean voyage which makes up the heart of the play. Finally in the growing chill and the gradual slowing...
...Person is not like any children's book you have ever read, that may be because it isn't a children's book. It is an adult's biography of a cat who became her pet and then her friend. May Sarton knows how to tell an adult about a cat. The usual hurdles of condescension and over-indulgence cause her no trouble. And she conspicuously avoids the Walt Disney custom of fastening human personalities onto animals. And that, in fact, is what the book is about...
...Arcy said, however, that Existentialism alone is unsatisfactory. He suggested that the experience of being recognized by another human being offers a way out. Once a person can participate in human relationships, he will come to "a sense of a presence that brings love instead of a dread of nothingness...
...pure spirit is that its knowledge does not come through sense perception, but intuitively and at will. Hence the telepathic and clairvoyant abilities of certain individuals in a state, says Wiesinger, of partial liberation from the body. Conversely, the partly liberated soul may be that of a dead person bound to a particular place-freer than embodied man but less free than it should...