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"And I . . . on a swiftly tilting planet"
By Gene Bone
Recently, I came upon this quotation from Albert Einstein: "The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest mainspring of scientific research." This set me to thinking of how casually we meander through life, often not taking time to consider the deeper verities, the wider implications, stemming even from our most day-to-day activities. How great and how wonderful are these readings toward Truth, which we tend to neglect in our heedlessness!
Musing over these subjects, I stared at my reflection in the mirror, while shaving. just who is this entity, this "I," looking back at me, this being to whom I'm a stranger, by and large? How did "I" get here? What am "I" doing? To what or to whom am "I" related? Suddenly I thought of Conrad Aiken's haunting lines from his Senlin: A Biography:
And I myself on a swiftly tilting planet
Stand before a glass and tie my tie.
What a thrilling sense of time and place, of "otherness" as well as I-ness," these words evoke! Aiken was a master of juxtaposition, and his craftsmanship expressed, not a nonsensical union of disparate parts, but
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Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 01
Senlin sits before us, and we see him.
He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him.
Is he small, with reddish hair,
Does he light his pipe with meditative stare,
And a pointed flame reflected in both eyes?
Is he sad and happy and foolish and wise?
Did no one see him enter the doors of the city,
Looking above him at the roofs and trees and skies?
'I stepped from a cloud', he says, 'as evening fell;
I walked on the sound of a bell;
I ran with winged heels along a gust;
Or is it true that I laughed and sprang from dust? . . .
Has no one, in a great autumnal forest,
When the wind bares the trees,
Heard the sad horn of Senlin slowly blown?
Has no one, on a mountain in the spring,
Heard Senlin sing?
Perhaps I came alone on a snow-white horse,-
Riding alone from the deep-starred night.
Perhaps I came on a ship whose sails were music,-
Sailing from moon or sun on a river of light.'
He lights his pipe with a pointed flame.
'Yet, there were many autumns before I came,
And many springs. And more will come, long after
There is no horn for me, or song, or laughter.
The city dissolves about us, and its walls
Become an ancient forest. There is no sound
Except where an old twig tires and falls;
Or a lizard amon