Comments on: 8. The Wholly Holey http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/8-the-wholly-holey/ On the Constituents of Emptiness Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ZLR Stavis http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/8-the-wholly-holey/#comment-1900 ZLR Stavis Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:04:25 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/8-the-wholly-holey/#comment-1900 Is the title a Kafka quote? I wrote a really bad poem quoting the phrase from the Blue Octavo Notebooks....lol, I dug it out. I remember I showed it to my professor, Jason Mogaghegh, and I believe it needed a bit of work. I'll put it down to the excitement of the kairotic moment in which it was written. Strange, I remember that last line as "My mind is riddled with holes..." The Core of Truth: The darkness. The blackness. The eternal flame but do not Warm yourself by it, nay, it Will only draw your eye close To the consuming seed, glinting Blackly in the blackness as If already consumed by fire And only needing to be Brushed off—no! The blade in The back, through the heart Sacking the vision burning Away On this altar, fading to Black— "The HOLiest of HOLies" Haha, riddles with holes, even the doves have white shadows Is the title a Kafka quote? I wrote a really bad poem quoting the phrase from the Blue Octavo Notebooks….lol, I dug it out. I remember I showed it to my professor, Jason Mogaghegh, and I believe it needed a bit of work.
I’ll put it down to the excitement of the kairotic moment in which it was written. Strange, I remember that last line as “My mind is riddled with holes…”

The Core of Truth:
The darkness. The blackness.
The eternal flame but do not
Warm yourself by it, nay, it
Will only draw your eye close
To the consuming seed, glinting
Blackly in the blackness as
If already consumed by fire
And only needing to be
Brushed off—no! The blade in
The back, through the heart
Sacking the vision burning
Away
On this altar, fading to
Black—
“The HOLiest of HOLies”

Haha, riddles with holes, even the
doves have white shadows

]]> By: Steven Chabot http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/8-the-wholly-holey/#comment-139 Steven Chabot Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:04:06 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/8-the-wholly-holey/#comment-139 Hindu/Buddhist: Maya Hindu/Buddhist: Maya

]]> By: Noah SD http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/8-the-wholly-holey/#comment-66 Noah SD Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:13:31 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/8-the-wholly-holey/#comment-66 You forgot to close quotes at the end of the "Who can possibly..." paragraph. Are you trying to pass off your own words as God's? To be honest, I think you're a more colorful writer than God was, but he comes through with much more confidence, so I don't think you'll have much success in pretending to be him. You forgot to close quotes at the end of the “Who can possibly…” paragraph. Are you trying to pass off your own words as God’s?

To be honest, I think you’re a more colorful writer than God was, but he comes through with much more confidence, so I don’t think you’ll have much success in pretending to be him.

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