William Empson in a review by Paul Alpers is quoted  “The feeling that life is essentially inadequate to the human spirit (because the spirit is tethered, anchored, in the stasis of living – its single form – “of standing?”), and yet that a good life must avoid saying so, is naturally at home with most versions of pastoral.”

“of standing”  position status reputation

pastoral  literature portraying an idealised version of country life

                                                                       triggered him to write didnt grapple with it  let it flow

human spirit

                 human spit human squirt humanid emission humidhuman emission

    I am, therefore I cum.

Tolstoi  “Art . . . is the one sphere in which human beings can assert their freedom from history.”  which means one doesnt have to look back over their shoulder    

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0943,  Sunday,  24  11. 24

Tolstoi  What is Art?  https://home.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361r14.html