A Primer in Hermeneutics (Epilogue) - Drawing these tides of Men

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible (T.E.Lawrence)

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 15) - But now they softly run

It was so old a ship and yet so beautiful.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 14) - Mellow fruitfulness

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 13) - Memories of the Grand Tour

Mantegna was eminent as an engraver, though his history in that respect is somewhat obscure, partly because he never signed or dated any of his plates, but for a single disputed instance of 1472.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 12)- When you walk in the garden...

...until the sunshine breaks forth upon our land...

A Primer in Hermenutics (Lesson 11) - Mounting barded steeds

The idle pleasures of these days.

A Primer in Hermenutics (Lesson 10) - Autoemancipation

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it. (Miliband)

A Primer in Hermenutics (Lesson 9) Contemplating pre-history in the abstract

If a pebble or an egg can be enjoyed for the sake of its shape only, it is one step towards a true appreciation of sculpture (Barbara Hepworth)

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 8) - Let's face the music and dance

So there was this fiddle player called Jeduthun

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 7).The sincere intuition of the soul

Don't forget the words of D. H. Lawrence. All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson Six). A heap of broken images, where the sun beats

Between the motion and the act falls the Shadow

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson Five) - The Moral Crisis

The darkest places in hell are reserved...

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson Four): The clouds unfold

Hold infinity in the palms of your hand...

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson Three)

A wise man once said, 'Reading between the lines brings enlightenment but little peace of mind'.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson Two)

Just one of those days.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson One)

O muses help me now.

Above the River Alph

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

Out of clutter, find simplicity

Live without certainty but without being paralysed by hesitation 

Ne'er the twain shall meet

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at the great Judgment Seat

The knowledge of my own fallibility

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes.

Yet there is method in it

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.

Between Rodmell and Telscombe.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Leonard Woolf

We walked across the Downs to Telscombe

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Poor old Prufrock

Time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions

Bright with sinuous rills

The shadow of the dome of pleasure floated midway on the waves where the mingled measure from the fountain and the caves was heard. A miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

Smooth, substantial and insinuating on the palate

There are many good whiskies gaining in prominence, on merit and structure, but whether they can compete with the single malts of Moraisliagh and Invermagriturn is a matter of violent disagreement.

Oh dear!

'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell...

Cognitating

Buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud.

But what about you?

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. (Keats)

We are shaped by our thoughts

“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”  (LW)

In the city of Chanoch

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Whither?

The surprising thing is.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. (GBS)

Storytime

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
(Carl Jung)

Trade route

 ...decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse...

Dioenergism

John of Scythopolis was a Byzantine theologian and lawyer adhering to neo-Chalcedonian theology. His major work was a treatise written in 530 defending the theory of "dioenergism".

A burning forehead, and a parching tongue

  Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought

What are you waiting for?

While everyone else was watching the first jacking (sic), the birds were oblivious to the drama.

A windy day with the white clouds flying

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the bloody sea-gulls crying.

A way of looking at the world

Come down into the green valleys of...

Skyline

The intention may have been geodetic

Next year's words await another voice

The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies

Every moment is ... new and shocking

Handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence.

Renewals hotline

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today.

Proteus

The ineluctable modality of vision.

Live and let live

I wished to show what such a scene was like.

Drink to me

Everything you can imagine is real

Sweet Thames run softly

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

Summertime

Phlebas the Phoenician... forgot the cry of the gulls, and the deep sea swell

Till human voices wake us

That is not what I meant, at all.