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The Circle Dance of Time

  • Paperback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • 14 x 21.4 x 1.3 cm

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'There is nothing wiser than the circle', Rilke says in his "Stories of God". John Dunne's new book explores the wisdom of the circle. He uses the metaphor of the circle dance, a folk dance in which the women form an inner circle, holding hands and moving clockwise; the men form an outer circle, moving counterclockwise. When the music stops the person opposite you is your partner for the next dance. Dunne interprets the circle as the great circle of life and light and love that comes from God and returns to God. Dunne emphasizes the far point on the circle, farthest away from God, and uses that to discuss the difficulties of our secular age. In the individual life, the far point is a dark night of the soul. Yet Dunne sees that far point of loneliness and darkness as a turning point as well, marking the return to love and light. The theme of the book is like the words of an old Bedouin to Lawrence of Arabia, 'The love is from God, and of God, and towards God'. The book concludes with the words of twenty-one "Circle Songs", composed by the author.
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  • Author

    John S. Dunne

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University of Notre Dame Press

  • Published

    May 2010

  • Weight

    214g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780268026059

  • ISBN-10

    026802605X

  • Eden Code

    2744391

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