[MD] another glimpse of Lila

[MarshaV]

Thanks Ron,

I think Paz's poems and essays are as you state 'beautiful and 
profound'.  The paragraph below seems so similar to Lila's comments 
in Chapter 14, that I was stunned.  I shouldn't have been, though, I 
recognized Lila's words the first time I heard them.

There was also a section in 'In Light of India', on time that was 
very interesting.  It seems that the Western/modernity conception of 
time is not held universally.  And there's a suggestion that there's 
a link between time & religion.  All very, very interesting!!!

I've ordered another Paz book, 'The Double Flame: Love and 
Eroticism'.  That should be interesting too.  Love is not a topic 
that get much attention on this forum.

Marsha




At 09:00 AM 2/19/2008, you wrote:
>Marsha,
>This post is excellent. The work of Octavio Paz is at once beautiful and
>profound.
>Thank you.
>
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>... The conversation, interrupted by our arrival, continued.  She
>spoke in Hindi, but would answer a foreigner in English.  As she
>spoke, she played with some oranges in a basket next to her.  She
>soon looked at me, smiled, and threw an orange at me, which I caught
>and held on to.  I realized that this was a game, and that the game
>contained some sort of symbolism.  Perhaps she wanted to say that
>what we call "life" is a game and nothing more.  Ananda began to
>speak in English and said: "I am frequently asked who I am.  And I
>answer you: I am a puppet, the puppet of each one of you.  I am what
>you want me to be.  In reality, I am nobody.  A woman like any
>other.  But the puppet whom you call Ananda the Mother is your
>fabrication.  I am you toy . . . Ask me whatever you like, but first
>I must say that the answer will not be mine, but rather your own.  It
>is like a game in which each person answers himself."
>              (Paz,Octavio,'In Light of India',1995,p.25)
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>Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars...
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