{"id":14,"date":"2009-09-23T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-01-01T19:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:33:49","slug":"down-to-the-margins-of-the-reeds-and-peer-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/09\/23\/down-to-the-margins-of-the-reeds-and-peer-within\/","title":{"rendered":"down to the margins of the reeds and peer within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Pollard, author at <a href=\"http:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/\">How to Save the World<\/a> set some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiseley.org\/\">Loren Eiseley<\/a>&#8216;s prose to verse.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a difficult re-entry<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The nature of the human predicament<br \/>is how nature is to be reentered; how man,<br \/>the relatively unthinking and proud creator of the second world &#8212;<br \/>the world of culture &#8212;<br \/>may revivify and restore the first world<br \/>which cherished and brought him into being.<\/p>\n<p>For what, increasingly, is required of man<br \/>is that he pursue the paradox of return.<\/p>\n<p>Yet man does not wish to retrace his steps<br \/>down to the margins of the reeds and peer within,<br \/>lest by some magic he be permanently recaptured.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, men prefer to hide<br \/>in cities of their own devising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/2009\/09\/21\/the-philosophy-of-loren-eiseley-in-verse\/\">The Philosophy of Loren Eiseley, in Verse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Pollard, author at How to Save the World set some of Loren Eiseley&#8216;s prose to verse. a difficult re-entry The nature of the human predicamentis how nature is to be reentered; how man,the relatively unthinking and proud creator of the second world &#8212;the world of culture &#8212;may revivify and restore the first worldwhich cherished&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/09\/23\/down-to-the-margins-of-the-reeds-and-peer-within\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">down to the margins of the reeds and peer within<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75BYE-e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/04\/17\/thinking-differently-about-books\/","url_meta":{"origin":14,"position":0},"title":"thinking differently about books","date":"April 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In the past few years, I've noticed I had been considering books a burden of promises.Though books by themselves don't make any promises, I have been using them as a sort of lifeline to the future: that I'll read that book, and some magic will happen, like I'll know some\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":69,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2007\/07\/03\/george-cooney-jr\/","url_meta":{"origin":14,"position":1},"title":"George Cooney Jr.","date":"July 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My dad passed away Saturday, June 30th 2007.The Freep had a little write up on him. 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