tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post5251627048966229359..comments2023-08-20T04:55:39.436-07:00Comments on Ars Psychiatrica: Two MoreNovalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-52481443926790362882009-08-30T04:08:40.904-07:002009-08-30T04:08:40.904-07:00The blissful ignorance and innocence of pre-knowle...The blissful ignorance and innocence of pre-knowledge/experience...the ecstasy of discovery and knowing knowledge...and then the misery of having known. Nostalgia?<br><br>'the limits of tame' - tame as an ill advised mode of living? or realisation of the impossibility of taming the human beast?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-38530021409962204132009-09-03T22:05:40.445-07:002009-09-03T22:05:40.445-07:00You are a true Renaissance Man! I love the one ab...You are a true Renaissance Man! I love the one about your boy and the sea. Especially that "The water waits with awful patience..."<br><br>Of course also morbidly reflecting on a friend's sister who, one day fifteen years ago, carefully folded her clothes on the beach and walked into the ocean and swam out deliberately until she drowned. My friend, a devout Christian, still blanches and trembles as she recounts it. <br><br>Also like the "sea will boil Five billion years form now..."<br><br>As far as the daughter and horse, I must be as forgetful as an 80 year old: I thought you had 2 boys...The girl and her horse. My father used to say that horses and riding lessons were safer than a daughter discovering boys too young. We had ponies as little kids (abominable biting Shetlands that ran away, and leaned against thorn bushes and tried to leave one on lowhanging branches, and we adored them). I think young children especially love the feeling (as one gets to be a better rider) of being a Centaur. A small, not yet full grown person loves imagining themself a powerful mythical creature. And all the amazing stories about warriors and horses. Has she read Lewis' "The HOrse and His Boy" yet? Despite the boy title, it has one of CS Lewis' better female characters in it (a way cool runaway princess who is far better on horseback and at strategising than the boy she takes up with). <br><br>Obviously there are those who snicker and make snarky comments about girls riding, but I see so many kids here now who (like my sibs and I) develop poise and confidence learning how to ride, and the exhilaration of a gallop! <br><br>Have you taken her to a polo match yet? Those guys are gods in human form...charging down the field, secular cavalry officers. <br><br>But anyway, I am really enjoying these poems. Subjects dear to my heart, and I love the mix of classical allusions and science and careful observation of the real and expressing what is underneath.retrieverhttp://artemisretriever.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com