12-04-2017, 12:05 AM
Pixie Dust wrote:
glance left wrote:
Personally, I want to simply inwardly merge with "Beatrice" and be done with the whole absurd diverting mess. Externalizing her/it just turns into an exhausting, frustrating wild goose chase that only stops when my impulse energy sputters to nothing. Then, it's the unfortunate "walk of shame" back to square one to recover and try again....hopefully with more internal integrity this time
Beautiful drawing of the tunnel....Gustav Dores I believe did the etchings. Funny thing is, during meditative visions....I more often see a scintillating square tunnel! Go figure.....
Externalizing a creature like Beatrice was the only option for Dante. He didn't know her very well, he had to create and conceptualize her without her input. Merging with something unknown is unpredictable. I wonder how different Dante's tale might have been if he had actually befriended Beatrice.
And if souls do return to take on tonal bodies, might those two entwined beings ever meet again. Such a profound dynamic leaves marks.
Heck, and maybe "officially" Dante only met her twice. Perhaps, there was more to Dante's tale that remained out-of-print. Back in their day and age, I imagine protecting the virtue of Beatrice was a thing...and if they did courtly love, then degrees of expression could be pretty limited.
A writer like that in love with a woman like her--has drama written all over it. It couldn't have been as simple as the biography makes it appear.
glance left wrote:
Personally, I want to simply inwardly merge with "Beatrice" and be done with the whole absurd diverting mess. Externalizing her/it just turns into an exhausting, frustrating wild goose chase that only stops when my impulse energy sputters to nothing. Then, it's the unfortunate "walk of shame" back to square one to recover and try again....hopefully with more internal integrity this time
Beautiful drawing of the tunnel....Gustav Dores I believe did the etchings. Funny thing is, during meditative visions....I more often see a scintillating square tunnel! Go figure.....Externalizing a creature like Beatrice was the only option for Dante. He didn't know her very well, he had to create and conceptualize her without her input. Merging with something unknown is unpredictable. I wonder how different Dante's tale might have been if he had actually befriended Beatrice.
And if souls do return to take on tonal bodies, might those two entwined beings ever meet again. Such a profound dynamic leaves marks.
Heck, and maybe "officially" Dante only met her twice. Perhaps, there was more to Dante's tale that remained out-of-print. Back in their day and age, I imagine protecting the virtue of Beatrice was a thing...and if they did courtly love, then degrees of expression could be pretty limited.
A writer like that in love with a woman like her--has drama written all over it. It couldn't have been as simple as the biography makes it appear.