--- Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE
<daniel.yocum@Peterson.af.mil> wrote:
> Seymour was at least considerate enough of his
> audience to kill himself.
> Buddy, being a lesser intellect, doesn't get it.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Only after a good dose of Rilke.
rilke, in the 'elegies', moved from despair to
affirmation. from a desire to emulate the
consciousness of the angels, to an embrace of earthly
life. (the crowning elegies are 7 & 9.)
and the post-elegy 'sonnets to orpheus' are even more
overtly affirming of life and a natural death.
suicide was not a rilkean solution. see the second
requiem to w.v.k. (not the 'requiem to a friend').
'being here is glorious.'
kim
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