![]() But at the same time, the Abyss is so terrible, so awful – in the old-fashioned sense – that the appropriate paralysis of terror is impossible to sustain. I imagine Trilling frowning at his students facing the inevitability of finite mortality isn’t supposed to be mere character-building or exam swot. ![]() I read this quote to mean that the correct – the only possible – response to the Abyss is not cool detachment but abject horror. ![]() Have it well in mind that a knowledge of me contributes materially to your being whole, or well-rounded, men.”Īmerican literary critic Lionel Trilling, 1961 I asked to look into the Abyss, and, both dutifully and gladly, they have looked into the Abyss, and the Abyss has greeted them…saying: "Interesting, am I not? And exciting, if you consider how deep I am and what dread beasts lie at my bottom. Janet McAllister reviews Madwoman/Gentlewoman.īefore we consider Kate Bartlett’s singular solo show, let us consider the infinite Abyss lying in wait for us all:
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