A Moriarty Reader by O'Donoghue Brendan;

Author:O'Donoghue, Brendan;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Moriarty, philosophy, mysticism, mythology, religion, christianity
ISBN: epub ISBN 9781843513926
Publisher: The Lilliput Press
Published: 2012-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self-Reliance’ in Essays and Poems (London: Everyman, 1992), p. 27.

2. Moriarty, Nostos, p. 21. The condor’s quill and Vesuvius’ crater relate to Melville’s famous quote in the chapter ‘The Fossil Whale’ in Moby-Dick, p. 406.

3. Moriarty writes, ‘Only a great story can shelter us. It was my calamity that I had fallen out of my story.’ (Moriarty, Nostos, p. 21.)

4. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (London: Wordsworth Classics, 1998), p. 216. See also Moriarty, Nostos, pp. 19–20.

5. Moriarty, Nostos, p. 20.

6. Ibid., pp. 50–3.

7. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, p. 116.

8. Moriarty, Nostos, p. 53.

9. Ibid., pp. 103–5.

10. Ibid., pp. 108–9. Although he speaks of the Parthenon’s religious retardation, on encountering it for the first time Moriarty expresses great reverence: ‘Sight of it, sight of the Parthenon in the high distance, was a blow to me. […] it shook a kind of secular impiety out of me. It wasn’t that I saw it as threateningly holy, but the moment I saw it I did feel that I was down here and it was up there. More than anything else, I sensed its high, ontological apartness and this evoked or begot – as if from the place where the divine “Thou shalt” came down upon the Jews, it begot a feeling of reverence in me – that, and a need for contrition. I had come here in lordly mood but now if I was anything I was a pilgrim, paying tribute.’ (Ibid., p. 61.)

11. Ibid., p. 88.

12. Ibid., p. 114.

13. Ibid., pp. 163–4.

14. Ibid., p. 355.

15. Ibid., pp. 173–4.

16. Ibid., p. 188.

17. Ibid., p. 208.

18. Ibid., p. 251.

19. Ibid., p. 334.

20. Ibid., pp. 395–9.

21. Ibid., p. 450. He says: ‘On the way back across the bog I came to a stream that runs down into Loch Fada. Finding a place where the bank was level with the water, I knelt down and immersed my head three times, baptizing myself out of culture, baptizing myself out of Christianity.’

22. Ibid., p. 439.

23. Ibid., p. 443.

24. Ibid., pp. 490–1.

25. Ibid., p. 519.

26. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin Books, 1990), p. 102.

27. Moriarty, Nostos, pp. 519–20.

28. Ibid., p. 522.

29. ‘If he wishes to be sure of the of the road he travels on he must close his eyes and walk in the dark if he is to journey in safety from his domestic foes, which are his own senses and faculties.’ (St John of the Cross, The Dark Night of the Soul [New York: Cosmo Inc., 2007], p. 154.)

30. Moriarty, Nostos, pp. 531–2.

31. Ibid., p. 578.

32. Moriarty, Turtle III, p. 64.

33. Moriarty, Nostos, pp. 573–4.

34. Ibid., pp. 612–13.

35. Ibid., p. 615. Moriarty writes, ‘Quietly, he made a circle with his thumb and forefinger. “In madness,” he said, “the circle is closed. The person is engulfed, is often deluded and isn’t able to distinguish what is really profound from what is trivial. In your case the circle is open,” he said, parting his fingers. “You can walk round about your experiences and you make sense when you talk about them.

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