"And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, ecstasies, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them. "( Urn Burial, Sir Thomas Browne)
School semester is coming to a closure. I have finished about 7 literature texts in this semester. Just want to say that of them all, I like "Urn Burial" by Sir Thomas Browne alot. Milton's stir-fry of classical mythology, biblical knowledge and natural science has lost to Browne. The obscurity in the uncanny and his skepticism towards how one makes sense of Christian beliefs. We seek not for knowledge but the patterns of knowledge. He seeks to find knowledge (narratives of lives through urns) in the threshold of things, to recognise the uncanny by becoming the uncanny to identify with them. His writings are of complex metaphors and analogies, as though in a funerary procession of ceremonial values. His long sentences confound yet is a cabinet of revelations. ...so beautiful.
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