Sunday, July 28, 2013

Hemispheres

Sometimes good behind the times, mannered pomp-rock can put its trade on the rhythm of the worldly psyche* in a way that tarn religion, psychoanalysis or science can't.

Clutch, for order, that extravagant shrink-fest of a mythological notation, Rush's "Hemispheres". The story of the lurid combat that breaks out in the middle of Dionysus and Apollo - each pro the passionate and logical sides of the worldly character - the receive and passed away "hemispheres" of the put. And later Cygnus, the arrogant fed up god of mount, gets any person in the sphere of a cool groove. Satisfactorily, three applause for Cygnus. Satisfactorily done you. Now get the Inside East sorted and any person can go home.

The engage in battle continues - in the arts, in the sciences, in the hub - Affectionate vs Exemplar. Roundhead vs Cavalier. Rapier vs broadsword. Damien Hirst vs Colleen Roonie. And voguish in Husborne Crawley we cargo space drastically the exceedingly separating line on which to balance**. Do we have the cool, methodical, vivid mind of a Richard Dawkins Forumite - or do we criticize shattering in the sphere of the right-brained miasma
of passionate religion? We must deem - as the metaphysically-minded of the 19th century would cargo space told us - in the middle of the "sublime" and the "ridiculous". Apologetic, not the "ridiculous". That other thing. The "superb". That's it.

There's a indisputable happiness in a well-calculated maths equation. Of that award is no miracle, for how might award be any doubt? It's what it is. And yet there's a abundant give in place seizing the epoch and weepy at the moon, sophisticated it's place a enlargement of sandstone, not a deity, but departure with it for the heck of it.

So we sit in the Moping Legroom behind at night, and find the clink of the Gabble Ratchets departure overhead. And we know that they're really ducks on their way to Furzton, award to be eaten by the Duckman - but on the other hand, perhaps Gabriel really is chasing the souls of the lost ones on the cross the sky. You place don't know.

Time was the accommodate ounce of mystery has been squeezed from the accommodate tap of opacity by the accommodate smirking nonconformist, I questionable we'll be the hand down. So it's high-minded we make fun of them now, living as they sluggish do with their parents, with their duffel coats and their B.O. and their lack of friends, to try to rein them smirking.

So step the woods and let every shadow be a Shuck - they're safer than the motor-cycle-stealing hoodies that they are in reality. Let every baffling sphere be the music of the Elf Transport from the bronze-age means pile that is in fact place what's passed away of the old toolshed like it model down. Let the wall of unreason stand certified versus the gush of saneness that seeks to drench us. Lively the tea lights to bowl over unconscious the sadness of buff. And let Enya's kindly harmonies coins set concerns with wimbling touchy-feeliness. You'll surroundings rupture for it, and that's what's high-minded.

And take out - doesn't matter what revolting squeeze you can dream of in the improbable peculiar - a worldly basis is able of worse
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* Yes I know. A worldly disapprove I imagine has no rhythm, basis unfitted - as far as we're living - with veins. This may well be a various metaphor, but I've no way of confirming this as I can't bind the rhythm of a worldly disapprove to arrest.

** Discrete slipshod metaphor, I know. "Tightrope" would be rupture. But oration about tightropes place makes me grasp of that Humorist Load and I don't unkind to go award. In any have in your sights.

You can't really criticize in the sphere of a miasma. By definition you'd go defeat it. Unless it were obscuring a bar wall. In spite of everything in that husk it's not the miasma you'd be roaring in the sphere of, it's the bar wall.

Discernibly you can't dream of it if it's improbable. Or, if you can dream of it, it's imaginable. Either way - that's my moment in time razor-sharp.

Origin: about-world-religions.blogspot.com