Comments on: on Ulysses & omnitemporality http://regainingparadise.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/on-ulysses-omnitemporality/ Sat, 17 May 2008 16:34:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: missmellifluous http://regainingparadise.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/on-ulysses-omnitemporality/#comment-78 missmellifluous Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:49:17 +0000 http://regainingparadise.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/on-ulysses-omnitemporality/#comment-78 To be honest, I had not heard of omnitemporal before either but wanted to enter into Rebecca's quest to search out the meaning of the word and in my musing was reminded of the contention that art transcends time. Thus the tangent began. It is a rehashed essay though. One I wrote for uni a couple of years ago. The T.S. Elliot quote is great. I love it too. I think he is right: each work does change those that have gone before and those that will come after in just some slight way. And I find it interesting that you refer to this change as happening in the 'landscape of ideas' for this is a very Irish way of thinking as well... but that's a whole other set of essays. I have not heard of or read any of George Mackay Brown's works but now that I know of him I will have to. What is it that you like of his? I read one of his poems ever so briefly before answering your comment and was captured by these lines: <i>The stories, legends, poems Will be woven to make your sail</i> from <a href="http://www.georgemackaybrown.co.uk/Extracts%20from/New%20Child.htm" rel="nofollow">'New Child:ECL'</a>. That alone is enough to make me want to go back and read more. I'll let you know what I think as I read more of his writing. Thanks for pointing him out to me! I really love Irish literature! To be honest, I had not heard of omnitemporal before either but wanted to enter into Rebecca’s quest to search out the meaning of the word and in my musing was reminded of the contention that art transcends time. Thus the tangent began. It is a rehashed essay though. One I wrote for uni a couple of years ago.

The T.S. Elliot quote is great. I love it too. I think he is right: each work does change those that have gone before and those that will come after in just some slight way. And I find it interesting that you refer to this change as happening in the ‘landscape of ideas’ for this is a very Irish way of thinking as well… but that’s a whole other set of essays.

I have not heard of or read any of George Mackay Brown’s works but now that I know of him I will have to. What is it that you like of his?

I read one of his poems ever so briefly before answering your comment and was captured by these lines:
The stories, legends, poems
Will be woven to make your sail

from ‘New Child:ECL’. That alone is enough to make me want to go back and read more. I’ll let you know what I think as I read more of his writing. Thanks for pointing him out to me! I really love Irish literature!

]]> By: ish http://regainingparadise.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/on-ulysses-omnitemporality/#comment-76 ish Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:04:29 +0000 http://regainingparadise.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/on-ulysses-omnitemporality/#comment-76 My word, you delve some interesting ground. I found omnitemporality a new word but a now obvious elevation of writing that relates to 'great' and 'classical'. I also liked the T. S. Elliot footnote and the slight rejigging of a landscape of ideas that occurs as each contribution is made. Just off the Irish map, do you like George Mackay Brown poetry/writing? My word, you delve some interesting ground. I found
omnitemporality a new word but a now obvious elevation of writing that relates to ‘great’ and ‘classical’. I also liked the T. S. Elliot footnote and the slight rejigging of a landscape of ideas that occurs as each contribution is made. Just off the Irish map, do you like George Mackay Brown poetry/writing?

]]> By: Julana http://regainingparadise.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/on-ulysses-omnitemporality/#comment-73 Julana Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:45:45 +0000 http://regainingparadise.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/on-ulysses-omnitemporality/#comment-73 I hated that book, and I never got through the whole thing. It was awful!!!! I hated that book, and I never got through the whole thing. It was awful!!!!

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