Comments on Dreaming Without Memory in Strangled Sleep: All the Textures of Sadness

Thanks for stopping by, Joodge :)

2008-08-02T04:33:00.000-05:00

Thanks for stopping by, Joodge :)

All the textures of sadness...I must read this boo...

2008-07-31T14:31:00.000-05:00

All the textures of sadness...

I must read this book.

So glad I just discovered your blog, Monica! I'll keep reading. :-)

I think you're right, Casey, about it having more ...

2008-07-18T13:29:00.000-05:00

I think you're right, Casey, about it having more to do with the degree of sadness rather than the presence of sadness itself--a certain texture of sadness so to speak. I wonder, too, if there is a more critical connection between sorrow and the mystical (I think so), and where the midrashic impulse fits into all that. It's interesting, given the fact that midrash in its classical incarnations

(I should've pointed out: Jesus' "you" in the phra...

2008-07-17T13:16:00.000-05:00

(I should've pointed out: Jesus' "you" in the phrase, "you have drunk" is singular, and in reference to Thomas)

I think trauma and inexpressible sorrow might be t...

2008-07-17T13:14:00.000-05:00

I think trauma and inexpressible sorrow might be the most common causes of the kinds of narrative silences and gaps that, I gather, we can call midrashic.

But if you suggest that every midrashic text you find seems born of sadness, I think it might have more to do with where you look than with the style itself... my interest has been in mystical writing for a while now, and the midrashic