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"Damn Braces. Praise Relaxes" (Blake)
This evening, under lamplight, we look at Community, and then at Devils in literature, including Milton’s Satan, Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit, RLS’s fable “The Devil and the Innkeeper”, Blake’s Proverbs of Hell, Dante’s Lucifer, the frozen mechanical monster at the centre of the Earth. But we turn more expansive as we continue with Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. You are invited to attend.
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Daedalus and Icarus taking to the air
Evening under Lamplight returns to Cambridge 105 with Series 3 of the show. “There is a time … for the evening under lamplight / (The evening with the photograph album)”, and we invite you to attend as we sit together looking through some photograph albums: Greek Myths, with pictures of Daedalus, who took to the air with new skills; Everything that Rises Must Converge, looking at Mindrollingpodcast and at the tales of Mulla Nasrudin, along with a companion story from the Yiddish folk treasury; and Song of Myself, as we begin looking together at Walt Whitman’s great poem from Leaves of Grass.
Walt Whitman
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We are attending to the Autumn Energy of Departure: life seems to diminish, and calls us to depart on a new journey, first into darkness, and then springing into new life. But first, the Calling out of the Wasteland, and the testing to see if we are really ready for this journey. It’s threatening only to the ego. So let’s look at some Wastelands, some methods of Calling and being Tested.
