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“Only man can fall from God
Only man.” “No animal, no beast nor creeping thing no cobra nor hyaena nor scorpion nor hideous white ant can slip entirely through the fingers of the hands of god into the abyss of self-knowledge, knowledge of the self-apart-from-god.”
“For the knowledge of the self-apart-from-God is an abyss down which the soul can slip writhing and twisting in all the revolutions of the unfinished plunge of self-awareness, now apart from God, falling fathomless, fathomless, self-consciousness wriggling writhing deeper and deeper in all the minutiae of self- knowledge, downwards, exhaustive, yet never, never coming to the bottom, for there is no bottom; zigzagging down like the fizzle from a finished rocket the frizzling, falling fire that cannot go out, dropping wearily, neither can it reach the depth for the depth is bottomless, so it wriggles its way even further down, further down at last in sheer horror of not being able to leave off knowing itself, knowing itself apart from God, falling.”
Only Man, D. H. Lawrence |
