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Imperfect Faith |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Aleksander Wat's Lucifer Unemployed |
| Author: Richard Lourie |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 4,009 Words, 21,678 Characters |
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The only thing simple and certain about the Polish writer Aleksander Wat is that he was born in Warsaw in 1900 and died in Paris in 1967. Although his fate, and the intellect he used to contemplate that fate, was highly convoluted, there is a basic theme and drama to Wat's life. Wat was one of those born with a hunger for meaning and for whom meaninglessness was an assault on his bodily health and sanity. Without order and faith, he was disconsolate. Hearty indifference was not an option for him. He required a purpose for everything in creation, from the inertness of minerals to the songs of he human mind.
That was Aleksander Wat, and, since character is destiny, that was also the story of his life, revealed when the foliage of detail is pushed aside. All his writings make addit...
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...swers the bowstring:
Speed my flight.
The arrow tells the target:
Be my light.
The target answers the arrow:
Love me.
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The target tells arrow,
bowstring, hand and eye:
Ta twam asi.
Which means in a sacred tongue: I am Thou. 3. (Footnote of a Christian: O Mother of God, watch over the target, the bow, the arrow and the archer.)
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