… continued from 2001

A quotation from Robert Lowell in this journal —

From "Epilogue," in Robert Lowell's Day by Day , 1977:

The painter's vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
….
All's misalliance.
Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun's illumination….

Lowell's stepdaughter published a memoir, Why Not Say What Happened? , on October 19th, 2010.

What happened in this journal on that date was "Savage Logic and the New York Lottery."

That post includes the quoted rhetorical question

"Is it a genuine demolition of the walls which seem to separate mind from mind…?"

Here is the context of October 19th—

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For a different, and to me more interesting, context for the "walls" question, see Party Phone  (August 31st, 2006).