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... vision of the New Jerusalem , the dreamer fleetingly ex- periences diffusion in infinity's flowing sphere of light . But the vision radically overextends his consciousness . He is ravished by sudden pure radiance ( 1088 ) , and his mind ...
... vision of the New Jerusalem , the dreamer fleetingly ex- periences diffusion in infinity's flowing sphere of light . But the vision radically overextends his consciousness . He is ravished by sudden pure radiance ( 1088 ) , and his mind ...
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... vision is hollow and illusory , he responds to what Satan really offers : the literal space of his fallen perception . The golden city is Satan's richest vision of en- closure , his dream of worldly conquest at its peak . Yet the vision ...
... vision is hollow and illusory , he responds to what Satan really offers : the literal space of his fallen perception . The golden city is Satan's richest vision of en- closure , his dream of worldly conquest at its peak . Yet the vision ...
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... vision of a single mind consumed by rage that transforms the imaginative body . We discover in the womb of the poem a concentrated organic form - the visionary body ... vision of four - in 137 Jerusalem : a fourfold vision of the body.
... vision of a single mind consumed by rage that transforms the imaginative body . We discover in the womb of the poem a concentrated organic form - the visionary body ... vision of four - in 137 Jerusalem : a fourfold vision of the body.
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
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