=5.= Dream dawn, dream-noon, dream-twilight!
Night and day are “telescoped” for Hugh by the monotony of crawling either awake or in dreams and never getting anywhere.
=17.= Dream-dawn, dream-noon, dream-night! And still obsessed
=18.= By that one dream more clamorous than the rest,
What is the one dream? Why is it a dream?
=3.= Yet had the pleasant lie befriended him,
=4.= And now the brutal fact had come to stare.
What was the “pleasant lie”? The brutal fact?
=7.= And nursed that deadly adder of the soul,
=8.= Self-pity. Let the crows swoop down and feed, etc.
The accumulation of great results by infinitesimal accretions is one of the everlasting surprises in life.
How do the wise use their Pisgahs? To enjoy or to inspire to further effort?
Define: facture, dwarfed, Titan, triumvirate.
=2.= Some higher Hugh observed the baser part.
What was the higher, what the baser part?
=3.= So sits the artist throned above his art, etc.
The hurt is nothing, the achievement is all. No man who is worth anything but counts his work as more than all else.
=5.= It seemed the wrinkled hills pressed in to stare, etc.
The manifestations of nature become Hugh’s audience and he falls into the throes of composition. Most of our thinking is in words uttered to persons present, absent, or imagined.
=11.= So wrought the old evangel of high daring, etc.
The true philosophy of life, to be a “victor in the moment.”
What is the effect of their cries? Describe the appearance of the sky.
Present, past and fancy are all mingled in Hugh’s experiences this day, showing his weakened condition, and the feeling for Jamie obsesses him.
=18.= At last the buzzard beak no longer tore
These lines were suggested to the author by a picture, “The Death of Absalom.”
=6.= Thus vexed with doleful whims the crawler went etc.
Hugh would have died at this time had he not drifted into the rugged vale.
=11.= Told how the gray-winged gale blew out the day.
=20.= It seemed no wind had ever come that way,
=21.= Nor sound dwelt there, nor echo found the place.
=7.= Returning hunger bade him rise; in vain
=8.= He struggled with a fine-spun mesh of pain etc.
=16.= In that hip-wound he had for Jamie’s sake
That “hip-wound” brings back the desire for revenge, a close association of ideas. Have you had such experiences?