Page 54 - Studio International - May 1969

Likewise the sounds of
Spear against spear, shield against shield,
shield
Against spear around Sarpedon's body. 3

v and
destructive battle we are plucked into a scene
afternoo tranqui order.
is t much­
G acceptanc in
experienc (or t equanimit of
paintings-A of
Brue 'A s th were
well
ho it
p someo else or
ope dully
4
along'. T epic arises
a certain way of seeing the world which
we are only just now beginning to understand
intellectually.
foremos the projec­
tion ... of menta a incom­
pa with the on a split between
ma a which to
esse Lev 1962. 5
recently 'Magica not
to be regarded a beginni r a
sk par w whi ycL
It well-articulated
system is respec of
which co science,
a whi brings
them together and makes the former a sort of
me expression is
therefore better, instead of contrasting magic
science, to compare them as two parallel
modes of acquiring knowledge.' 6
This magical or myLhical way of seeing, which
enables Homer to take (literally bird's-eye­
vicw of his protagonists, to compar fuse
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