can the world be improved The awkward interface where the metaphysical intersects, interacts, and intermingles with the material, where the subtle meets the obvious, and oceanbuddhistaging
reclaiming land from the sea The true work of man in the latter part of his life is the cultural process of bringing up some of the contents of the unconscious and integrating oceanfourfoldaging
homunculus and euphorion Made by Wagner — a man the size of a thumb (the second appearance of the puer aeternis). In Faust’s second, less personal and brief marriage with agingarchetypes
linger, thou art fair In Christopher Marlowe’s play “The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus” (late sixteenth century) Faust was to pay for twenty-four years of restored youth by agingshadowsuffering