It is not surprising that the son, who also drank heavily and sometimes drove too fast, insisted that the real cause of his father's death was the loss of a cotter pin in the steering mechanism. But the emphasis on that cotter pin keeps ...
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The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Specialty Conference Held at Cambridge, MA, August 26-28, 1968
This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, the prose of Samuel Beckett, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens.
286, rightly points out the contrast between the flame of the pyre and 'cette autre flamme du desir, de la luxure qui l'a brule pendant toute sa vie', but he gives that contrast an irrelevant and misleading turn: ' Apres la flamme de ...