Comments on: A Bucket of Thoughts: From Eliot to Strauss to Nietzsche to IWS

By: Michael Graham

Michael Graham — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:37:32 +0000

Couldn’t agree more about the Bucket List – a highly Nietzschean film. I felt like the whole bit about relationships was just some window dressing for the test audiences. The real substance was self-actualization through tightrope walking. Nietzsche would scoff at the sappy life lessons. Of course, Nietzsche is highly unpalatable so it was necessary for some measure of Box Office success.

Keep trucking at RTS and glad to see you, Richard, and the CSC continue to collaborate – great stuff.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:58:27 +0000

Yeah, OK, my son, so how many “l”‘s do you see?

By: Charlie Kidd

Charlie Kidd — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:19:51 +0000

and isn’t it spelled with one “l”?

By: Charlie Kidd

Charlie Kidd — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:08:35 +0000

T.S. Elliot — isn’t he a NASCAR driver?

:0)

Can’t wait to help.

If I can…

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:17:54 +0000

On Eliot: I couldn’t agree more, but, my, he’s worth the effort!

“Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many”

(The Waste Land, 1.61-63)

By: darrell a. harris

darrell a. harris — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:20:45 +0000

lovely post, dear brother~
and with jim, i thank you for the reminder.
i’d really appreciate getting a notice whenever you post;
i sadly admit that everything going on the the world that is not in front of my face (read, in my e-mailbox) doesn’t seem to exist for me.

your writing always refreshes, delights, illuminates and challenges.
thou dost always “break the bread of life” in thy verbiage;
always manna for my hungry soul.

sometimes poetry is like glossolalia.
and from the tongue of eliot, unlike the sometimes jarring pot-luck ejaculation on a random pentecostal sunday morn, it can be like eavesdropping in the prayer-closet of a saint for whom the “prayer-language” has become a primary, rather than a secondary, tongue.

yes, it can be dense.
but that is part of its grace.
i often love to hear the scripture read or prayers prayed in tongues i do not understand.
someone said that god gave us music so we might pray without words.
sometimes unintelligible language is like that dimension in music for me.
i will pray and praise “with the spirit” as well as “with the understanding.”

“that art is best, which to the soul’s range gives no bound;
something beyond the form, something beyond the sound.”
(8th century chinese proverb)

the deep shalom of our crucified and risen elder-brother be with you, amigo~
dh

By: Jim Hart

Jim Hart — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:19:10 +0000

Reggie,

Thanks for the reminder to visit your blog. I really need to do that more often. A couple of random thoughts:

Your reference to the “bravery” of Strauss/Nietzsche reminds me of the Resurrection Symphony of Mahler (#2), which I sang in college. I originally thought the text was written by Goethe, but apparently it’s actually Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Nonetheless, it always impressed me with its sense of bravura and bravado, perhaps even bravery, that pleads for its fulfillment in Christ.

Second, thanks for your reflections on IWS. A friend of mine, Henk Van Wyke, wrote a book titled, “The Dance of the Blind Bride,” an image for the church that he discovered while observing, for real, a blind bride dancing at her wedding. She seems at times to be both blind and poorly adorned.

Blessings to you!

Jim Hart