22.02.2011

au!12 - formula

"What this graph of culture refers to is far from clear. The graph of culture that Zukofsky attempts trace in Bottom would show the degree of realization throughout consecutive civilisations of the following formula:
'love : reason : : eyes : mind,' which reads 'love is to reason as the eyes are to the mind; or, says it so that means equal extremes: when reason judges with the eyes, love and mind are one' and which Zukofsky also calls the 'definition of love'"
(Abigail Lang: How to End a Life-Work)