Word: thyself
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before you try to educate the public, take a healthy dose of that "basic stuff' you mention and heal thyself...
...much in common. Like Joyce, Ibsen lived by "silence, exile and cunning," fleeing Norway to live abroad for 27 years. Both men abandoned their native countries physically and yet were able to repossess and be possessed by them psychically and aesthetically. As a parallel to the Greek dictum "Know thyself," both Ibsen and Joyce say "Free thyself." This is no faddish preachment to "do your own thing" but a call to an austere heroism and indomitability that dares to stand alone...
Tableau: American Literature, personified, in a balcony. English Department, up a tree. Night. Am. Lit.: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not an "English Department...
...Know thyself, said the ancients; man cannot know himself, say the moderns. He is the enigma of enigmas, a caveman turned philosopher, an innocent ensnared in sensuality, a master builder of civilizations who wrecks them like a frustrated child...
...unwanted child is the greatest sin of all. It is a sin against mother, child, and society. It is appalling to know that there are people in the world who claim to have more compassion for a developing zygote than for a suffering segment of the population. Preacher, chastise thyself...