tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2127231318556758701.post1762400891071459720..comments2023-11-05T03:06:30.977-08:00Comments on Mormon Midrashim: "Walking Among the Legend People" DiscussionJames Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14422536627746885883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2127231318556758701.post-88723631375839636082017-06-10T12:12:40.310-07:002017-06-10T12:12:40.310-07:00Some stories and poems, I think, are instantly acc...Some stories and poems, I think, are instantly accessible to a reader, and some require a bit more effort to sink into them. I think both types have their virtues and both should exist for various reasons. <br /><br />For me, this one took a couple of reads to grasp more closely, but I came to enjoy it more the more I read. I think the idea that struck me most was that "our faces [are] painted with our inevitable sunset." It felt like such a powerful image and idea--that we contain within us, already, our ends. Jeannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17368761224192682300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2127231318556758701.post-23266547011268755332017-06-10T09:33:17.297-07:002017-06-10T09:33:17.297-07:00I think the meditation on time is cool. Interestin...I think the meditation on time is cool. Interesting how many Lit Blitz pieces this year cover long periods in the short space allotted: forty years for Jeanna, four generations for Jeanine, and a "scant 10,000 years" here.<br />While this piece doesn't need to be read in a Mormon context, I do think the combination of Utah landscape and discussion of history has a particular meaning for Mormons. I get kind of an image of our pioneer history like a nested doll in longer histories of the Paiutes, of the rocks themselves. James Goldberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14422536627746885883noreply@blogger.com