http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2007/02/12/paint-the-devil-on-the-wall-2/ mocking the ways of true grown men Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:10:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2007/02/12/paint-the-devil-on-the-wall-2/comment-page-1/#comment-21267 Nicola Masciandaro Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:16:39 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=355#comment-21267 Yes. And isn't this precisely the "perversity" of negative or apophatic theology, for which the symbol signifies negatively, in its failure? How much difference is there really between the solitary black metallist and the avant garde medieval mystic who says "For myself, I prefer to be lost in this nowhere, wrestling with this blind nothingness, than to be like some great lord traveling everywhere and enjoying the world as if he owned it" (Cloud of Unknowing, ch.68)? Both transcend _belief_ as a totally irrelevant category. Yes. And isn’t this precisely the “perversity” of negative or apophatic theology, for which the symbol signifies negatively, in its failure? How much difference is there really between the solitary black metallist and the avant garde medieval mystic who says “For myself, I prefer to be lost in this nowhere, wrestling with this blind nothingness, than to be like some great lord traveling everywhere and enjoying the world as if he owned it” (Cloud of Unknowing, ch.68)? Both transcend _belief_ as a totally irrelevant category.

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