May 7, 2011

The geniuses of literature, like Faulkner, bring together stunning juxtapositions of disparate words and images to lend depth and clarity to their stories. I just read a two paragraph description of Dilsey in S + F, beginning 4th section, and I feel like I've knelt before Michelangelo's David, no, that I've participated in it, hewn it with him piece by piece. The great ones seem to channel universal perspective into even their most prosaic passages. Once it is read or written, it elicits instinctive recognition as, yes, the only way, the right way, the best way this thing could be conveyed in words. Same goes for the genuine spiritual masters. They are bells tolling the same note perfectly and incessantly for those with ears to hear.