Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

Preface

t least in the life of the mind, ventures should be carried through to the end. This book is a. continuation of a voyage begun with Life Against Death; a continuation faintly foreshadowed in the last chapter of that book, "The Resurrection of the Body." But as is said over and over again at the end of Euripides' plays, the demonic is polymorphous ; the gods decree many surprises; expectations were not realized; God found an opening for the unexpected ; that was the way this business turned out. The continuity is fractured, and one item from the record is missing here, a Phi Beta Kappa Oration delivered to the Columbia University Chapter in May 1960 and published in Harpers Magazine in May 1961 under the title, "Apocalypse : The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind." It records a shaking of the foundations; and faintly foreshadows , like false dawn, the end. N. O. Brown A This page intentionally left blank Loves Body This page intentionally left blank ...