{"id":40545,"date":"2024-07-09T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T02:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinaheritage.net\/?page_id=40545"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:36:56","slug":"intersecting-with-eternity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinaheritage.net\/intersecting-with-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersecting with Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A mini-anthology of literary and artistic works, both past and present, that are part of the unbroken stream of human awareness and poetic self-reflection, Intersecting with Eternity <\/em>is a companion to The Tower of Reading<\/em><\/a> and an extension of\u00a0The Other China<\/em><\/a> section of China Heritage<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The expression \u2018intersecting with eternity\u2019 is inspired by a passage in Mary Norris\u2019s excursions into the world of Ancient Greece:<\/p>\n

\u2026 the real world of crabby landladies and deceptive road signs would crack open and mythology would spill out. You have to pay the rent in the real world, but it\u2019s crazy not to embrace those moments when it intersects with eternity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Mary Norris, Greek to Me: adventures of a comma queen<\/em>, 2019<\/p>\n

It was mid 2019 and our Joseph Levenson Reading Group<\/a> was about to reconvene at the elegant eyrie of Wen-hsin Yeh overlooking Berkeley in California. Before our first meeting, I attempted to adjust to the time and climatic shift from wintery rural New Zealand to its solsticial opposite on the Pacific west coast by nursing a Mimosa and reading Norris in the sunlit courtyard of a bar on Telegraph Street.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Geremie R. Barm\u00e9
\nEditor, China Heritage<\/em>
\n10 February 2024<\/p>\n

The First Day of the First Month of
\nThe Jiachen<\/em> Year of the Dragon<\/p>\n

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The invisible republic of the spirit, the universal fatherland, has been established among the races and among the nations. Its frontiers are open to all who wish to dwell therein; its only law is that of brotherhood; its only enemies are hatred and arrogance between nations. Whoever makes his home within this invisible realm becomes a citizen of the world. He is the heir, not of one people but of all peoples. Henceforth he is an indweller in all tongues and in all countries, in the universal past and the universal future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014\u00a0Stefan Zweig,<\/em>\u00a0Romain Rolland:
\nThe Man and His Work<\/a>,
\ntrans. Eden and Cedar Paul
\nNew York, 1921, p.355<\/em><\/p>\n

We quoted these lines from Stefan Zweig in the introduction to Spectres & Souls<\/em><\/a>, the 2018 issue of China Heritage Annual<\/em>. They also resonate with the passage from Mary Norris, quoted above, and add to the impetus for this series on \u2018intersecting with eternity\u2019.<\/p>\n

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