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Umbrella, photographs by Sage Sohier...
...products like Sage Sohier may well be adequate explanation of where the faculty puts its energy. More likely, Sohier owes her ability to her own talent and hard work...
...Donnell tries to softly shuck away at the wadded stupidity for us. He does it with a certain inefficiency and no one's going to thank him for that static present. The work is full of problems, but an original play by a young writer (this by a sage) is supposed to be full of problems. His vision, which aspires to the peripheral and occasionally epiphanal, is sometimes just blurry, but then no one expected Ah, Wilderness! from someone not even out of the forest. O'Donnell's gift is what sticks, and it is some gift indeed: funny, touching...
...perceptive summa tions of Islamic tradition or Zionist his tory are comparable to the great riffs and turbulences of his novels. But the Middle East, no matter how bizarre, is not fictive, and in the end its complex ity forces Bellow to quote the urgent pas sage in Handel's Messiah: "Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the peoples imagine a vain thing?" With the positing of that query, Bellow acknowledges that in the terri tory he has examined there are no easy answers. Indeed, there may be no answers at all - only questions...
Spiritual Exercises. Howls of religious outrage may also greet Bharati's description of the mystical personality. Conventional wisdom in most traditions, says Bharati, assumes that a man who has looked into the eye of God must be a saint or a sage. Rubbish, he replies. "The zero-experience cannot generate sainthood [or] wisdom ... any more than orgasm can generate good citizenship ... The mystic who was a stinker before he had the zero-experience remains a stinker after the experience." By way of illustration, Bharati describes a mystic named Trailinga who threw stones at approaching visitors. The author also quotes...