Could anything have been more thrilling than comprehending an entirely new way of seeing, a reality more real than the real itself?
I loved this idea of the obscure hero who commanded a worshipful respect that an outsider (me, in this case) couldn't entirely comprehend.
Just as Ashbery, or any poet, inevitably fails to realize his intentions, so too his reader — or any reader, reading any poem — will always inevitably fail to comprehend his meaning entirely.
Just as Ashbery, or any poet, inevitably fails to realize his intentions, so too his reader or any reader, reading any poem will always inevitably fail to comprehend his meaning entirely.
But we'll do it with an irony and pride that you'll never entirely comprehend.
There is as well the brilliant but deliberately nonconformist staging that expands the subject matter in ways we may appreciate but not entirely comprehend.
For me at least, it wasn't until actually setting foot in a rainforest that I could entirely comprehend just what these ecosystems mean to our planet.
Designers have been tempted to mine cultures with an insensitive and not entirely comprehending eye in the past.
As Robert Alter has demonstrated in his startling and revealing translations of the Psalms and the Pentateuch, the Hebrew Bible is even stranger, and in ways that the King James translators may not have entirely comprehended, and yet their text performs the great trick of being at once recognizably English and also a little bit foreign.
However, the precise role of CaSR is not entirely comprehended.
The connections drawn within and among the cards are so mind-boggling to contemplate that it seems entirely appropriate to comprehend them within a magical system like the tarot.
