| | Professor Eucalyptus again--Real Numbers:
An Object Lesson
A Cornell professor discusses a poem by Wallace Stevens:
"Professor Eucalyptus in 'Ordinary Evening' XIV, for example, 'seeks/
God in the object itself,' but this quest culminates in his own
choosing of 'the commodious adjective/ For what he sees... the
description that makes it divinity, still speech... not grim/ Reality
but reality grimly seen/ And spoken in paradisal parlance new'...."
"God in the object" seems
unlikely to be found in the
artifact pictured on the
cover of Mao's book:
I have more confidence
that God is to be found
in the Ping Pong balls
of the New York Lottery.
These objects may be
regarded as supplying
a parlance that is, if not
paradisal, at least
intelligible-- if only in
the context of my own
personal experience:
Journal entry dated 5/14:
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