tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post3125836324664150181..comments2024-03-23T20:37:37.891-07:00Comments on First Known When Lost: "Yes! In The Sea Of Life Enisled"Stephen Pentzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-63371284074029819442012-08-24T09:44:30.342-07:002012-08-24T09:44:30.342-07:00Esther: thank you very much for visiting, and for ...Esther: thank you very much for visiting, and for those variations on the theme. Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Matthew Arnold, all in the same boat (or, on an island, I should say)!<br /><br />Thanks again.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-4333224919835383632012-08-24T00:35:51.340-07:002012-08-24T00:35:51.340-07:00Well, if you're Kenny Rogers, you sing a duet ...Well, if you're Kenny Rogers, you sing a duet with Dolly:<br /><br />"Islands in the stream, that is what we are...."<br /><br />If you're Jackson Browne, you write a song:<br /><br />"Where the touch of the lover ends<br />And the soul of the friend begins<br />There's a need to be separate and a need to be one<br />And a struggle neither wins...<br /><br />You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost<br />In everything I do<br />Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you...<br />Sky blue and black"<br /><br />Or, if you're John of the Cross, you write a canticle:<br /><br />"She lived in solitude,<br />and now in solitude has built her nest;<br />and in solitude he guides her,<br />he alone, who also bears<br />in solitude the wound of love."Esthernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-53687215994891333042012-08-23T17:31:25.807-07:002012-08-23T17:31:25.807-07:00George: thank you very much for that bit of Emerso...George: thank you very much for that bit of Emerson. It is a nice counterpoint to Arnold, especially given Arnold's enthusiasm for Emerson (at least in his younger years).<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by again.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-2101319723644470222012-08-23T03:01:49.106-07:002012-08-23T03:01:49.106-07:00In Emerson's English Traits, "Character&q...In Emerson's <i>English Traits</i>, "Character", I find<br /><br />"The club-houses were established to cultivate social and habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together, and oftenest one eats alone. Was it then a stroke of humor in the serious Swedenborg, or was it only his pitiless logic that made him shut up the English souls in a heaven by themselves."<br /><br />So maybe it wasn't just Matthew Arnold.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com