ARCHIVE OF WEEKLY THOUGHT

January 16, 1999 January 9, 1999 January 1, 1999

January 16, 1999

" ...although an open mind, to be sure, should be open at both ends, like the foodpipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." Northrop Frye, The Great Code, The Bible and Literature, Myth I, p 44

January 9, 1999

When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? Oscar Wilde De Profundis

January 1, 1999

“If we take the concept of homosexuality out of its narrow psychopathological setting and give it a wider connotation, we can see that it has positive aspects as well.
...This [homosexuality] gives him a great capacity for friendship, which often creates ties of astonishing tenderness between men, and may even rescue friendship between the sexes from its limbo of the impossible. He may have good taste and an aesthetic sense which are fostered by the presence of a feminine streak. Then, he may be supremely gifted as a teacher because of his almost feminine insight and tact. He is likely to have a feeling for history, and to be conservative in the best sense and cherish the values of the past. Often he is endowed with a wealth of religious feelings, which help him to bring the ecclesia spiritualis into reality, and a spiritual receptivity which makes him responsive to revelation." Carl Gustav Jung