Haggadah- Benjamin

[Giles Peaker]

Dear Tom,

Oh the perils of producing replies in flight. Sorry if what was meant as
flip appeared as "crushing".  More seriously, I do wonder about the
agent(s) of redemption. We might all be endowed with a "weak  messianic
power", but it seems that such a power, if anything, acts through us,
rather than us being the agents. There is a similar question with regard to
divine and mythic violence in the early  "Critique of Violence".

Childhood as access to the archaic in the new? Perhaps so, but also
childhood as dream, the realm of images. As with surrealism, the problem is
awakening. No simple return can be made, surely, to the realm of the child.
But to bring the dream of the child into the adult world as awakening - the
utilisation of the dream in waking? Well, I have said my piece on awakening
and its problems.

yours apologetically
Giles