Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Elegy's Elegy

Elegy's Elegy

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The decline of the elegy betokens a certain loss of sensibility in the western world in the twentieth century, a loss described by Mircea Eliade as "desacralization". Where other cultures continue to distinguish between the sacred and the profane, the West has conflated the two.

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