Roberto Calasso - Literature and the Gods

165,1 , 4, 33, 6.

165,2 Ibid. , I, 161, 5.

165,7 Loc. cit.

166,3 Ibid. , I, 161, 1.

166,10 Aitareya , 3, 30, 3.

166,16 Ibid. , 3, 30,4.

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169,5 C. G. Jung, “Commentary on “The Secret of the Golden Flower,”” in Alchemical Studies , ed. B.F.C Hull, in Collected Works , Boutledge and Kegan Paul, London, vol. XIII, 1978, p. 37.

170,3 Salustius, On the Gods and the World , 3,3.

174,11 M. Blanchot, Le Livre à venir , Gallimard, Paris, 1959, p. 242.

174,16 Ibid. , p. 243.

176,11 A. E. Housman, “The Name and Nature of Poetry,” in Selected Prose , ed. J. Carter, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1961, p. 193.

176,14 Bhagavad Gītā , 18, 74.

176,23 Th. Gautier, Souvenirs romantiques , Garnier, Paris, 1929, p. 267.

176,26 A. K. Coomaraswamy, “ : Aesthetic Shock,” in Selected Papers , ed. B. Lipsey, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1977, vol. I, p. 179.

180,8 Novalis, “Monolog,” in Schriften , vol. II, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1981, pp. 672–673.

180,23 M. Heidegger, Unterwegs zur Sprache, Neske , Pfullingen, 1959, p. 265.

182,23 G. Benn, Briefe, Limes, Wiesbaden, 1957, pp. 203–204.

184,28 F. Nietzsche, “Über Wahrheit und L¨ge im aussermoralischen Sinne,” in Werke, cit., vol. III/2, 1972, p. 369.

185,6 Ibid. , p. 370.

185,11 Ibid. , p. 374.

185,13 Ibid. , p. 382.

185,17 Ibid. , p. 381.

185,21 Ibid. , p. 380.

185,23 Ibid. , p. 381.

186,12 Ibid. , pp. 381–382.

187,16 M. Proust, [“La Poésie ou les lois mystérieuses”], in Contre Sainte — Beuve, ed. P. Clarac and Y. Sandre, Gallimard, Paris, 1971, p. 417 .

187,17 Loc. cit.

188,7 Ibid. , p. 418.

189,20 Ibid. , pp. 419–420.

191,7 M. Proust, [“Le Déclin de l’inspiration”], in Contre Sainte — Beuve , cit., p. 423.

191,11 F. Hölderlin, “Brot und Wein,” v. 124.

193,7 Pindar, fr. 133,1 (Snell).

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