Her essay "Modern Novels" (1919; revised in 1925 as "Modern Fiction") attacked the "materialists" who wrote about superficial rather than spiritual or "luminous" experiences.
It was impossible to gaze through into the luminous interior without experiencing a swift apprehension of loneliness, of how it might feel to be shut out, standing alone in the cooling air.
Unlike most of us plebes, who get a little high and think we're creative geniuses, Vernon O'Meally turns his psychedelic experiences into luminous, detailed works of art.
He already has considerable experience of large, luminous man-eaters, having been married to one for years.
I thought about this while reading Paul La Farge's new novel, "Luminous Airplanes," which outlines the experiences of what I'm tempted to call the Trash 80 generation.
In so doing, Saariaho has given her audiences – and given late 20th and early 21st century music as a whole – some of the most luminous, beguiling and sheerly sensual experiences they can hope to have.
A sycophantic snob and posturing dandy, he frittered away his youth -- and his father's money -- trying to ingratiate himself with the idle rich; in his masterpiece, "Remembrance of Things Past," he would transform those frivolous experiences into a luminous meditation on the nature of time and memory and loss.
My avatar for this kind of writing--let's call it spiritual fiction--is Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy, the luminous story of the religious experiences of a young nun in upstate New York in the early 20th century.
That year he and Williams created something of a religious experience — funky, soulful and luminous — known as "Mary Lou's Mass".
Through Nov. 3 In a gallery just a short walk from the ruins of the World Trade Center it's hard not to experience Daisy Craddock's luminous land- and seascapes as images of grief and consolation.
