xy.0 Spirit of Geography

xy.0.0.1 In all, the civilizing aspect over, superimposed on the pagan, violent, medieval, romantic.


xy.0.0.2.1 flat plain

xy.0.0.2.2 secure foothills

xy.0.0.2.3 frigid mountain tops

xy.0.0.2.4 searing desert

xy.0.0.2.5 salt ocean

xy.0.0.2.6 riverrun

xy.0.0.2.7 lake drowning


xy.0.1 Teutoni

xy.0.1.1 Faust, Luther, Signy-Sigurd

xy.0.1.2 dramatic, mythological

xy.0.1.3 MYTH - wood - darkness


xy.0.2 Italia - Hellas

xy.0.2.1 lyrical, semi-autobiographical

xy.0.2.2 ART - sun


xy.0.3 Gallia - Hellas

xy.0.3.1 Proust, Zola, Flaubert, Camus (Stranger), (Mann(Snow))

xy.0.3.2 philosophical

xy.0.3.2.1 emotional embodiment of an attitude to life

xy.0.3.3 MIND - stone


xy.0.4 Celtae

xy.0.4.1 MAGIC


xy.0.5 Espagna

xy.0.5.1 passionate

xy.0.5.2 RELIGION - torture cell


xy.0.6 Anglia, Australia, America

xy.0.6.1 James

xy.0.6.2 dramatic

xy.0.6.2.1 drama of emotions and intellect

xy.0.6.3 SYNTHESIS - hand


ab.0 Spirit of the Age


ab.0.1 Italy - Tuscan literature - 1300 (Dante) to 15xx (Sack of Rome)

ab.0.2 Spain - Castilian literature - El Siglio de Oro- 1560 to 1660

ab.0.3 France - Le Grande Siecle - Age of Loius XIV

ab.0.4 England - mid 18th to Fin de Siecle


ab.0.5 Germany

ab.0.5.1 barbarians against Rome

ab.0.5.2 Prussia - 1756 to 1871 or 1914


ab.0.6 Catalonia and Provençal - troubadours - Middle Age

ab.0.7 Hibernia - Celts, Druids, Christian Eremites


ab.0.8 Iceland

ab.0.8.1 Volsungasaga

ab.0.8.1.1 Story of Burnt Njal

ab.0.8.1.1.1 Age of Faith - W. Durant - p.1033

ab.0.8.2 Niebelungeslied


uv.0 The twins and the Dame

uv.0.1 sad struggle:

uv.0.1.1 Pierrot – Harlequin and Columbine?, Columban?, Columba?

uv.0.1.2 star child – lord of the air and White Goddess

uv.0.2.vs : happy synthesis

uv.0.3. Hasnt this all been written? Shem – Shawn, Earwicker – ALP?

uv.0.4 struggle of sentimental ομοερωτισμός vs man – woman love


gh.0 The self and the Vast

gh.0.1 Fitting to the way

gh.0.2 Not-fitting to the way

gh.0.2.1 Seeds of its own destruction

gh.0.2.1.1 Its Collapse and rebirth

gh.0.3 each personhood in the Sea

gh.0.3.1 personal Collapse and rebirth

gh.0.4 Ani's praise of Ra

gh.0.5 Apuleius's praise of Arphrodite

gh.0.6 Ka

rs.0 Janus

rs.0.1 Sense of the Past - H. James

rs.0.2 Distant Relations - C. Fuentes

rs.0.3 Be swallowed or Swallow


jk.0 The virginian in America

jk.0.1 The Beautiful Room is Empty - E. White

jk.0.2 The Unforgiven - C. Eastwood


mn.0 "illusion and reality" and "elusion and exhaustion"

mn.0.1 Don Quixote - C. Fuentes

mn.0.2 Don Juan - C. Fuentes

mn.0.3 A group's story in a conceived world


op.0 Seen and Unseen

op.0.1 What Maisie Knew - H. James