Saturday, October 22, 2022
One Turns Backward
Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005), Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige
in Provence and Languedoc (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), p. 8:
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The past draws. It draws, I feel, to the extent that the present, the cultural and ultimately the spiritual present, has failed to generate generative image: the kind in which societies might come to recognize their veritable identity. In default of such image—such eloquent mirror—one turns backward. Goes under.
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Against the cultural poverty of one's own times, it seems befitting, I feel, to travel under. Examine vestige.
