Activity

for readers of poetry or gazers at paintings or films, listeners to music, for all of us who have found there comfort and consolation and instruction, unnervings, adumbrations of meaning, echoes of intuitions we hadn’t even understood that we had

Numinous in this case really being some inarticulate feeling that rose up in her with that quality of light, which of course is the old image of the relationship to the divine

a panegyric elegy

with its lugubrious pose

the tacitly prurient masks behind which European ethnography expressed its fascination with the bodies of the people they were exploiting or hoped to exploit