tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622205244066185754.post8549293732150125953..comments2016-06-29T04:23:43.937-07:00Comments on The Many Coloured Land: John Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13951246561259007162noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622205244066185754.post-83919743796305860822013-11-25T15:33:11.474-08:002013-11-25T15:33:11.474-08:00Thank you very much Stephen. That's a terrific...Thank you very much Stephen. That's a terrific story about the Islington roofs. Yes, it's a tremendous piece of writing by CW. Had he lived I'm sure we would have seen a lot more of this in his work - the ordinary world invested and imbued with this sense that, as you say, although everything looks perfectly normal in one sense, in another it's become utterly different, and you know intuitively that another level of reality has staked a claim, however temporarily, on the day to day milieu we know (or think we know) so well.<br />All the best, John.John Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13951246561259007162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2622205244066185754.post-33567299247058487012013-11-25T05:05:28.985-08:002013-11-25T05:05:28.985-08:00This is a piece of writing of breathtaking beauty,...This is a piece of writing of breathtaking beauty, John. Thank you so much. Thanks to Sorina Higgins I read "All Hallows Eve" recently and was also greatly moved by the same passage that you quote. I loved the way you drew that together with your quotation from Ulysses. I will never disturb anyone so intently engaged again! I had my own moment of Epiphany in London once looking over some very ordinary rooftops in Islington. I had been praying (not with any especial fervour) and had gone to have a coffee. I looked out of the kitchen window and while in one sense everything looked the same in another everything was transformed and I was transfixed by the beauty of what I saw and for a time taken out of myself and into a kind of communion with "it" whatever "it" was.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01852822554679317708noreply@blogger.com