scraping the rock face

the well
(a translation of “le puits,” by yves bonnefoy)
you hear the chain scraping the rock face
when the bucket descends in the well that is the other star,
at times the evening star that comes alone,
at times the undivided fire awaiting dawn
for the beasts and shepherd to emerge.
but always the water is shut in the well’s deep,
the [...]

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rise

links first:
jean-luc marion: “sketch of a phenomenological concept of sacrifice” with responses by zizek, gschwandtner, and biles. see also, at the archives of chicago’s divinity school, october’s “enchantments of secular belief” by rutherford and the responses by hirschkind, zeghal, and gilpin. also within this theme, charles taylor writes at the immanent frame about buffered and [...]

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