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Mysteries

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Mysteries (, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. Plot The community of a small Norwegian coastal town is shaken by the arrival of eccentric stranger Johan Nagel, who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeois inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations. Publication The novel was originally published in Norwegian in Norway in 1892. In 1922, Knopf published the first English translation, a bowdlerized translation by Arthur G. Chater. Another translation by Gerry Bothmer was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971, with an afterword by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who said, "The whole school of fiction in the 20th century stems from Hamsun." Mysteries is said to have "the shape and spirit of the modern novel, produced at a time when the modern novel did not yet exist". Penguin published a third translation into English by Sverre Lyngstad in 2001. The novel inspired Paul Juon to write his tone-poem for cello and orchestra, "Mysteries" op.59, written in 1914 and published in 1928.

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“Augustine discussed the Trinity by means of an analogy with the three fundamental phases of personality—knowing, willing, and feeling—although ultimately he believed it to be a mystery beyond human comprehension. God is the perfection of knowledge, power, and good will. His attributes are omniscience, omnipotence, and .”
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“It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.”
— Albert Einstein in Mein Weltbild (1931), as quoted in Introduction to Philosophy (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44.
“A mystery is only a mystery for a time, for it relies upon a sense of wonder and curiosity to maintain its air, and that needs energy. If it is not revealed before the energy runs out, then the mystery becomes a conundrum, a problem, an annoyance, and a pestilence.”
— Jody Lynn Nye, The Dreams of the Sea (2013), in J. E. Mooney and Bill Fawcett (eds.), Shadows of the New Sun (p. 305)
“There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.”
— Wei Wu Wei, All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)
“In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.”
— Richard Cecil, p. 422.
“We live in the midst of infinite existence; and widely as we can see, and vastly as we have discovered, we have but crossed the threshold, we have but entered the vestibule of the Creator's temple. In this temple there is an everlasting worship of life, an anthem of many choruses, a hymn of incense that goes up forever.”
— Henry Giles, p. 424.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Mysteries: album by Keith Jarrett · In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal · There are those who sleep. There are those who don't. Tormen

Overview

Mysteries (, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. Plot The community of a small Norwegian coastal town is shaken by the arrival of eccentric stranger Johan Nagel, who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeois inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations. Publication The novel was originally published in Norwegian in Norway in 1892. In 1922, Knopf published the first English translation, a bowdlerized translation by Arthur G. Chater. Another translation by Gerry Bothmer was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971, with an afterword by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who said, "The whole school of fiction in the 20th century stems from Hamsun." Mysteries is said to have "the shape and spirit of the modern novel, produced at a time when the modern novel did not yet exist". Penguin published a third translation into English by Sverre Lyngstad in 2001. The novel inspired Paul Juon to write his tone-poem for cello and orchestra, "Mysteries" op.59, written in 1914 and published in 1928.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Augustine discussed the Trinity by means of an analogy with the three fundamental phases of personality—knowing, willing, and feeling—although ultimately he believed it to be a mystery beyond human comprehension. God is the perfection of knowledge, power, and good will. His attributes are omniscience, omnipotence, and .”
— ,
“It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.”
— Albert Einstein in Mein Weltbild (1931), as quoted in Introduction to Philosophy (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44.
“A mystery is only a mystery for a time, for it relies upon a sense of wonder and curiosity to maintain its air, and that needs energy. If it is not revealed before the energy runs out, then the mystery becomes a conundrum, a problem, an annoyance, and a pestilence.”
— Jody Lynn Nye, The Dreams of the Sea (2013), in J. E. Mooney and Bill Fawcett (eds.), Shadows of the New Sun (p. 305)
“There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.”
— Wei Wu Wei, All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)
“In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.”
— Richard Cecil, p. 422.
“We live in the midst of infinite existence; and widely as we can see, and vastly as we have discovered, we have but crossed the threshold, we have but entered the vestibule of the Creator's temple. In this temple there is an everlasting worship of life, an anthem of many choruses, a hymn of incense that goes up forever.”
— Henry Giles, p. 424.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.