It has already been noted that great authors often emerge as reactions to major social crises, and that an aggressive environment is more stimulating than a quiet, controlled, harmless one that does not directly threaten the author and therefore only promotes inertia. All of this is correct; but it remains to be seen that, for the reaction to take place, there needs to be an education that makes it possible to see the scale of the crisis, in other words, the author needs to be very clear about the basic foundations of a civilization, something that requires him, above all, to distance himself from the one in which he lives so that he can use it as an element of comparison.
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What Enchants in Provençal Poetry…
What enchants in Provençal poetry and in medieval French fixed forms is above all the melodious sonority, which only occurs because there is an inalienable link with music in both, that is, it only occurs because the compositions, if not intended for singing, are always intended to be recited with musical accompaniment. So rhythm and melody must necessarily harmonize in them as a constructive requirement, having an effect, or rather, endowing the composition with the delicious quality that modern poetry has striven to strip away.
Although It Is Undoubtedly Not Professional…
Although it is undoubtedly not professional or prudent to sit at a table and allow oneself to admire the hideous wonder of the white screen with the cursor flashing like a macabre chronometer, doing so sometimes proves curious, when the result is that the brain picks up the idea from an obscure corner of the mind, and then develops it in detail, without having prepared for it. Kardec asserts that this is a very natural metaphysical process which, although intelligible, once accepted calls into question the limits, identity and individual capacities of the being. So the question, which perhaps contains a valuable lesson: to what extent do they matter?
The Great Moment of Fiction Reading
The great moment of fiction reading is when we perceive, in the individuality of the author and the work, the connection with the universal. It is great because it amplifies the sense of detail and demonstrates that the human drama is a shared drama. By noticing it, we become aware that neither time nor space alter this essential condition of being, responsible for the possibility of understanding between men; by noticing it, we become aware that the smallest thing, no matter how small, contains within itself a perennial and interchangeable significance.