Andrew,
'Alchemical Blue' is such an important essay for me. Essential. And yes - it's fascinating, what his death has done. It's as if, all my life, I knew he was there and would go on saying the things that need to be said, the things no-one else was saying. Now, as you say, we have come full-circle, or perhaps full-spiral - in the same place but deeper - and now it is up to us to carry the blue flame, the forked-torch, in whatever way we can. I think it might be necessary that we meet one day and have a jolly good talk. The other night, before Hillman died, I read the essay you wrote on David Mason - the man I'm going to marry - and I thought, how interesting! I must talk with Andrew about Dave's work one day! And now - this. I need to come to Italy, for Lawrence and Hillman, and so I'm sure we will find each other there.
Nemo - what you said about the intellectual generosity of Hillman - sending the reader off on paths of their own - is so true, so eloquently said! And you'll find the same generosity in Brown. I can't conceive of my life without 'Love's Body'.
Cally