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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Michael<br />

Bright<br />

Donald<br />

Bruce<br />

Mary Doyle<br />

Springer<br />

Helga<br />

Duncan<br />

Chapter 29 -- The <strong>Underground</strong> River as Metaphor<br />

"Most Capital Enemies<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Muses: War,<br />

Art, and Kubla Khan"<br />

The Age <strong>of</strong> Rembrandt<br />

at the Queen's Gallery<br />

Upon Rereading<br />

Fiction and the Shape<br />

<strong>of</strong> Belief<br />

Headdie Ryots as<br />

Reformations,<br />

Marlowe's Libertine<br />

Poetics<br />

Herb Shore The Humanist<br />

Alternative, by Barrie<br />

Stavis<br />

Kristin<br />

Bryant<br />

Brent<br />

Nelson<br />

James S.<br />

Duncan<br />

Francis B.<br />

Sayre<br />

Oates's I Lock My<br />

Door Upon Myself<br />

Cain-Leviathan<br />

Typology in Gollum<br />

and Grendel<br />

America, by Jean<br />

Baudrillard<br />

Comparative<br />

Literature<br />

Studies<br />

Dec. 1984<br />

Contemporary<br />

Review<br />

Aug. 2005<br />

Critical Inquiry<br />

Dec. 1979<br />

Early Modern<br />

Literary<br />

Studies<br />

Sept. 2006<br />

Educational<br />

Theatre<br />

Journal<br />

Dec. 1973<br />

Explicator<br />

Fall 1993<br />

Extrapolation<br />

Winter 2008<br />

Geographical<br />

Review<br />

Jan. 1990<br />

Criminal Conspiracy Harvard Law<br />

Review<br />

Feb. 1922<br />

DRAFT 1122//66//22001122<br />

The first <strong>of</strong> these ideas is that art is<br />

LIKE A SUBTERRANEAN RIVER,<br />

emerging spontaneously and<br />

unexpectedly at certain times and<br />

places, flowing for a spell, and then, as<br />

suddenly as it had appeared,<br />

submerging to hidden caverns.<br />

The picture seeped up into<br />

Rembrandt's imagination LIKE AN<br />

UNDERGROUND STREAM from his<br />

assiduous reading <strong>of</strong> the gospel <strong>of</strong> St<br />

John.<br />

Some <strong>of</strong> these ideas, such as the stiffly<br />

worded but unparaphrasable<br />

definitions <strong>of</strong> the types <strong>of</strong> fiction,<br />

continue to reverberate LIKE AN<br />

UNDERGROUND STREAM, echoed<br />

by several "generations" <strong>of</strong> Sheldon<br />

Sacks' students.<br />

A "haeresis perennis, a perennial<br />

heresy" whose tradition is LIKE AN<br />

UNDERGROUND RIVER, which we<br />

can trace back and back, perhaps to<br />

the time <strong>of</strong> Christ.<br />

"Truth," says Barrie Stavis, "is LIKE AN<br />

UNDERGROUND STREAM. It can be<br />

stopped up, but some day it will rise to<br />

the surface."<br />

The impersonal life that flowed through<br />

her LIKE AN UNDERGROUND<br />

STREAM.<br />

He found a little cave out <strong>of</strong> which the<br />

dark stream ran [LIKE GRENDEL'S<br />

SUBTERRANEAN RIVER]; and he<br />

wormed his way like a maggot into the<br />

heart <strong>of</strong> the hills.<br />

Yet an older European discourse runs,<br />

perhaps undetected by Baudrillard<br />

himself, LIKE A SUBTERRANEAN<br />

RIVER through this work.<br />

Thus, LIKE AN UNDERGROUND<br />

STREAM that ever keeps coming to<br />

the surface, the doctrine, constantly<br />

reiterated in the loose dicta <strong>of</strong> courts<br />

and the statements <strong>of</strong> text-writers, has<br />

kept appearing and reappearing ever<br />

since Hawkins' time,<br />

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