The war and peace paradox, take 2: of wolves and music

October 30th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

and the Tate and Lyle motto: Out of the strong came forth sweetness.

It’s that sweetness — that image of the lion and those bees more than the Biblical story itself — that I remember…

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I am grateful to Steve Engel for bringing Robinson Jeffers’ poem to my attention this last week, and to J Scott Shipman of this blog for introducing me to Hélène Grimaud’s playing of the Bach Chaconne on YouTube:

YouTube video

Out of the strong came forth sweetness indeed.

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  1. Madhu:

    October 30th, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    But my mother did make us pancakes on rare and wonderful occasions, and on them I lavished farm butter and Tate and Lyle‘s glorious Golden Syrup, with its image of Samson’s lion and the honey bees:
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    The sweetness of a certain kind of domestic and family beauty….

  2. Charles Cameron:

    October 30th, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    Madhu:
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    Yes.  And I’m reminded once again of your name, Madhu, and my associating it with honey via the Madhu-Vidya or Honey Doctrine of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: 

    This earth is the honey (madhu, the effect) of all beings, and all beings are the honey (madhu, the effect) of this earth. Likewise this bright, immortal person in this earth, and that bright immortal person incorporated in the body (both are madhu). He indeed is the same as that Self, that Immortal, that Brahman, that All.
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    Brihadaranyaka Upanishad II.5

    I suspect that a very great deal more than we might think rides on just that kind of “domestic and family beauty” that you mention…