… Jane Clark Scharl delivers artful truths in Sonnez Les Matines. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The Christian tradition, however, construes the notion more dramatically. The commandments of God are inscribed not only in the Bible but on each individual conscience; in the confessional, a man must accuse himself and prosecute the charges himself. To an eavesdropper — as for the audience of a verse play, if we accept John Stuart Mill’s assertion that all poetry is “overheard” — such an arrangement is as tantalizing as it is recondite. For even if we knew what was said in the confessional, we could nowise know that it accurately reflects the state of the soul.
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