Either Fire or Fire

By Nash Keune

The second of Phineas Sullivan's commonplace notebooks.

From the back cover:

"Either the fire of damnation or the fire of creation (although actually Eliot himself was probably writing about purgatorial fires here- the flame that prepares a person for heaven, not heaven itself. Eliot, for whom heaven is a place where nothing, nothing ever happens; for whom heaven is a breathless, airless miniature of life, everything glued down where it is [the still point in the turning world]. Eliot, who so much mistook daytime rituals imitating death- mistook them for life, life at its absolute most pitched; a hollow man who stuffed himself with dried-out pages of dead books and thought it, for some reason, better than being stuffed with straw. Of course Eliot could never know the flame itself as the highest heaven a person could ever live in- the flame, the kiln, the doing and the becoming, the highest heaven that a person need ever live in)."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B9QPT4L7
• ISBN13: 9798846669680
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"