Tag: Holy Saturday 2012

Appeasing Epstein

… On Holy Saturday "'If only they could send us something grown-up… a sign or something.'  And a sign does come from the outside. That night, unknown to the children, a…

Background

From Joyce's 1912 Trieste lecture on Blake: "Michelangelo's influence is felt in all of Blake's work, and especially in some passages of prose collected in the fragments, in…

The Void

(Continued from March 10, 2012) An inaccuracy in a passage linked to yesterday— "The created universe, the whole of things, is,  in words from Joyce's Ulysses , 'predicated on…

Knowing Brooklyn

For St. Dismas,  a Holy Saturday story— "Mr. Rosensaft told another story to illustrate his friend's mix of grit and wit. Mr. Steinberg was negotiating one day with…