Monday, January 20, 2003
Pythagorean Silence (An Excerpt) Comments
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age of earth and us all chattering
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Susan Howe
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7/19/2025 4:45:21 AM # 1.0.0
The introductory epigraph to Howe's Pythagorean Silence (1982) makes the point that for her, as for the Romantics and the Modernists, language mediates the engagement between consciousness and the external world: we that were wood when that a wide wood was In a physical Universe playing with words Bark be my limbs my hair be leaf Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver .