tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post7669815561588545055..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: super-conscious indifference to the eye in a human skull!Umbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-8753353617300022512014-02-21T05:50:40.978+11:002014-02-21T05:50:40.978+11:00So what I didn't catch is that Powys is also t...So what I didn't catch is that Powys is also the eye in the bubble! Marvelous. No wonder his books are so long; he has to account for everything.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-62323926084407610532014-02-21T03:22:52.787+11:002014-02-21T03:22:52.787+11:00(His ideas about literary criticism are pantheisti...(His ideas about literary criticism are pantheistic as well: "No one has a right to be a critic whose mind cannot, with Protean receptivity, take first one form and then another, as the great Spells, one by one, are thrown and withdrawn." (<i>Visions and Revisions</i>.))Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-15517934538579323522014-02-20T19:10:08.186+11:002014-02-20T19:10:08.186+11:00He's omnivorously pantheistic in his books, an...He's omnivorously pantheistic in his books, and originally I had a paragraph in that post pointing out that he behaved that way in life as well (according not only Powys himself but to the people who observed him and saw that he liked to acknowledge a tree stump or a rock by respectfully knocking his head against it). There's a sort of fairness in his pantheism too, as if he thinks it's not good manners to have a scene with a horse in it without including the horse's point of view along with the points of view of the other characters. The <i>story</i> doesn't need the point of view of the horse, but he does. Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-13730305466401259002014-02-20T18:42:51.830+11:002014-02-20T18:42:51.830+11:00He's one of those specialty tastes. I read Hun...He's one of <i>those</i> specialty tastes. I read <i>Hundred Best Books</i> a while ago, when obooki linked to it the first time, and after that I noticed that Powys was giving his own characters his favourite books to read. Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-27199126663564274032014-02-19T06:44:15.995+11:002014-02-19T06:44:15.995+11:00Yes, yes, great stuff. Powys considers that it'...Yes, yes, great stuff. Powys considers that it's all life, and has life looking at life, two different forms of life, and lets them both be self-aware, at least in the girl's imagination. Hard to say from this passage how closely Powys identifies with the girl's experience. It seems like he does a lot, though. It also seems, from the bits you've quoted (I have read nothing by Powys), as if Powys is putting himself into the place of nature (the voice rolling over the hills and stopping at the scene of a corpse--who is a being with no voice, I guess) while he's busy putting nature into the role of sentient being. Which is wacky and interesting.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-87338629606294967062014-02-17T15:14:23.324+11:002014-02-17T15:14:23.324+11:00I can see why Powys is a specialty taste.
Does ...I can see why Powys is a specialty taste. <br /><br />Does that sound negative? From me, that is not negative.<br /><br />I have read nothing but <i>One Hundred Best Books</i>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.com