"In this section, Whitman breaks out of enclosures, whether they be physical enclosures or mental ones. In one of his early notebooks, Whitman had drafted the line “Literature is full of perfumes,” a recognition that books and philosophies and religions all offer filtered versions of how to view the world. They are all “intoxicating”—alluring, to be sure, but also toxic."
The last paragraph got me. 🔥
It is rare now, where I live, for anyone to call back my broken, naked urban raven's call. But here it is, a wilder voice not my own calling back.
https://soundcloud.com/mjp-shaw/scatterlings-welcoming-a-story-martin-shaw?in=mjp-shaw/sets/scatterlings
"In this section, Whitman breaks out of enclosures, whether they be physical enclosures or mental ones. In one of his early notebooks, Whitman had drafted the line “Literature is full of perfumes,” a recognition that books and philosophies and religions all offer filtered versions of how to view the world. They are all “intoxicating”—alluring, to be sure, but also toxic."
https://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/en/writings/song-of-myself/section-2
https://vimeo.com/339762465