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Notes Preface 1. The last words of the ghost of Darius in a new version of Aeschylus’ The Persians by Ellen McLaughlin which I saw performed by the Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley on October 15, 2004. 2. The first and last lines of “East Coker” in T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), pp. 23 and 32. 3. T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin and Jonathan Cape, 1971), p. 364. See my discussion in my Reasons of the Heart (New York: Macmillan, 1978; pbk. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), p. 1. 4. Plotinus, Enneads 6:9 in A. H. Armstrong, ed. and trans., Plotinus, vol. 7 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), pp. 333 and 335. See my discussion in my Music of Time (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996), p. 159. 5. Dag Hammarskjöld, “A Room of Quiet: The United Nations Meditation Room” (New York: United Nations, 1971), opening sentence. 6. Patricia McKillip, The Sorceress and the Cygnet (New York:Ace,1991), p. 92. See discussion below in the chapter “The Far Point on the Circle: Love Passing through Loneliness.” 7. Pascal, Pensees (#278 in ed. Brunschvicg) in Pascal, Oeuvres Completes, ed. Jacques Chevalier (Paris: Gallimard, 1954), p. 1222. Quoted below in the chapter “God Sensible to the Heart,” n. 1. 135 8. Nicolas Malebranche, Oeuvres, ed. Genevieve RodisLewis and Germain Malbreil (Paris: Gallimard, 1979), vol. 1, p. 1132 (my trans.). Quoted below, “God Sensible to the Heart,” n. 39. 9. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, p. 28 (“East Coker,” lines 123–128). 10. Pascal, Pensees (#206 in ed. Brunschvicg) in Pascal, Oeuvres Completes, p. 1113 (my trans.). The saying about the infinite spaces “I do not know and that do not know me” is #205 in ed. Brunschvicg. 11. Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 3 (bk. 1, chap. 1). 12. Werner Herzog, “Every man for himself and God against all” in his Screenplays, trans. Alan Greenberg and Martje Herzog (New York: Tanam, 1980), pp. 97 and 172. 13. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, trans. Leif Sjöberg and W. H. Auden (New York: Knopf, 1964), p. 89. Reasons of the Heart 1. “Le coeur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connait point.” Pascal, Pensees (#277 in ed. Brunschvicg), Oeuvres Completes , p. 1221. 2. Karl Barth, Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum (Faith in Search of Understanding), trans. Ian W. Robertson (Cleveland and New York: World/Meridian, 1962). 3. Bernard Lonergan, Insight (London: Longmans, 1957). 4. Helen Luke, “Choice in the Lord of the Rings” (Three Rivers, Mich.: Apple Farm Paper, n.d.), p. 12, an unpublished essay she gave me permission to use. 5. Dag Hammarskjöld, “A Room of Quiet.” 6. Pascal, Pensees (#281 in ed. Brunschvicg), Oeuvres Completes , p. 1221. 7. Ibid. (#278), p. 1222. 8. “Tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre,” Pascal, Pensees (#139), pp. 1138–1139. 136 Notes to Pages viii–3 9. Thomas R. Kelly, A Testament of Devotion (New York: Harper & Row, 1941), p. 40. 10. Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (New York: Penguin, 1987), pp. 161–162 (his critique of Pascal). The words he is quoting here, as he says, are those of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor. 11. Newman, Prose and Poetry, ed. George N. Shuster (New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1925), p. 116. 12. Arthur Zajonc, Catching the Light (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). 13. The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, ed. and trans. Paul Auster (San Francisco: North Point, 1983), p. 180 (Joubert’s entries for October 22 and 24, 1821, quoted by Maurice Blanchot in a commentary at the end of the volume). 14. Ibid., pp. 180–181. 15. Wendell Berry, A W orld Lost (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint , 1996), p. 150. 16. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (one vol. ed.) (London: Allen & Unwin, 1976), p. 397. 17. Matthew 5:8 (KJ). 18. Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing, trans. Douglas V. Steere (New York: Harper & Row, 1956). 19. Dante, Paradiso 3:85 in E. Moore and Paget Toynbee, Le Opere di Dante Alighieri (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 107. 20. Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince, trans. Katherine Woods (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), p. 87. 21...