...thee say — What manner of man art thou ? " Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale ; And then...power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach. What loud uproar bursts from that door !...

...the hill ? is this the kirk ? Is this mine own countree ? . . . . Since then at an uncertain hour, My agony returns : And till my ghastly tale is told,...power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach. What loud uproar bursts from that door!...

...by Levi's epigraph to The Drowned and the Saved, from Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns,...my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. (11.582-85) Levi here identifies not with the innocent albatross but with its murderer, the guilty...

...out that Levi is being anti-metaphorical in his use of Coleridge's lines from "The Ancient Mariner": Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns,...my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. Notes <jne cajjs Levj's use of these lines "newly startling to a merely literary reader, to Pages for...

...synchronizing of his will with another kind of rhythm, over which he cannot exercise conscious control: Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns:...till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me bums. (ll. 582-585) The rupture with the continuum of the human/natural/divine is a permanent scar;...

...wrenched With a woeful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then it left me free. Since than, at an uncertain hour. That agony returns: And till...power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach. What loud uproar bursts from the door! The...

...outside himself that takes possession of him: Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then...ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. He has no conscious or rational control over either the manner of his telling or the matter of which...

...hospitality. (Levi 1988 pp. 184-185) And what did Levi place as epigraph for his last book? These lines: Since then, at an uncertain hour that agony returns,...my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Perhaps this hints at the release needed to come about. The finishing. The...

...frontispage of The Drowned and the Saved, taken from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns:...ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. Levi's heart burned brightly till, charred by the ashes "down there," it burned itself out. The reader,...

...knows that whenever he repeats his story — a story of intense emotions — anguish assails him:22 Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns,...ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. (VII, 582-85)14 The symmetrical nocturnal logic25 that aims for narcissistic omnipotence, the negation...