tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post177616152991115606..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Highland Maryelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-81458614289855648902010-09-25T10:13:56.101-04:002010-09-25T10:13:56.101-04:00Clare, thank you so much for the superb commentary...Clare, thank you so much for the superb commentary! And thank you for the link as well! You are a marvel!elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-52155566799156524582010-09-25T07:23:20.602-04:002010-09-25T07:23:20.602-04:00Being of Scottish descent myself on the distaff si...Being of Scottish descent myself on the distaff side, I'm well aware not all our honorable heroes are as holy as saints should be! It would appear that's what the visual artists implies also in his composition of the literary artist Burns stepping over the Bible 'away' from the classical redemption direction of stage-scene R (viewer's L) to stage-scene L -- aka sinister in Latin (viewer's R). <br /><br />Note also that the 'fever' his second lover died from may not have been as innocent an illness as we are apt to naively form a sentimental image of: here's Victorian contemporary Thomas Hardy poem <br />http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/10375/<br />on the 'pastoral' emmenagogues that led to a Sunday Morning Tragedy (if past behaviour is a good predictor of future behaviour, Highland Mary's family may have chosen a different solution when their daughter faced the same fate as her rival Jean, as happens in many families even into the present day to avoid the shame and social setbacks of "illegitimacy").<br /><br />Incidentally I heard a neat discussion of the honor code and its implications for respect and dignity of human persons (what we Catholics call the 'sanctity of life') recently that even mentioned Canon Law and Cardinal Newman, listen to archive of Marty Moss Coane from our local public radio station interview Princeton Philosophy Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah here:<br /><br />http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2010/09/22/8006/ <br /><br />Enjoy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com