This morning’s Guardian carried the headline:
“Religion does more harm than good – poll
82% say faith causes tension in country where two thirds are not religious”
No wonder I often feel like keeping quiet about my religious leanings!
Yesterday, sitting on a train and coming to an end of a very slow read of Anne Carson’s Economy of the Unlost, I found the following:
“Simonides advises us ‘to play at life and to be 100 percent serious about Nothing.” (Page 119)
and,
“. . . the human condition is an irretrievably mixed one. . . . Gods fail to love us. The All Blameless Man turns out not to exist. So where can we go for news of truth? To words. The poet’s words remain.” (Page 126)
And I was heartened by the piece in last week’s Guardian Review, A life in writing, about the novelist Wilson Harris (a writer I’ve been unfortunate enough neither to have heard of or read) who appears to have been writing from the interface of the secular and the religious, the conscious and the unconscious, in the area he likes to call “cross-culturality”. In other words not this or that, but rather, this and that.
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