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Prolapses in Immensity

Description: "Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learned them by heart: and through them he had glimpses of the real world about" - James Joyce

"Even in their simplest meaning the words of men stemmed from death, but further than that,... they stemmed from immensity, and therefore the listener who received them was no longer himself; he had become an unraveled person, due to things distended from himself, because he had prolapsed in immensity."

- Hermann Muenster

A group for the discussion of so-called scyballic literature (the kind formed by the paragorics of academia).

Literature, as practiced by Augustine, through Shakespeare, Broch, Beckett, W.G. Sebald and Javier Marias does not merely entertain, but celebrates (in the sense that a priest might once have celebrated the Mass), in a series of magnificent failures, "what it is to be and be in face of." Here is a stab at a group to discuss such themes, authors and works.

Members: dcozy, TonyH, danconley, JonathanM, literary.elitist, bookishbunny, edwardhenry

Group Talk

Topics		messages	Last message
Immensity revisited		2	copyedit52, January 2
Dormant: What's happening?		11	benwaugh, December 2006