6/1/2023 0 Comments John g neihardt booksNeihardt was born on January 8, 1881, in Illinois. Neihardts full name was John Gneisenau Neihardt. One of his most famous books is Black Elk Speaks. The slowly revolving Milky Way was only a glory within me the great woman-star jeweling the summit of a cliff, was only an ecstasy within me the murmuring of the river out in the dark was only the singing of my heart and the deep, deep blue of the heavens was only the splendid color of my soul. Neihardt wrote about Native American tribes and what their life was like. Space and eternity were I-vast projections of myself, tingling with my consciousness to the remotest fringe of the outward swinging atom-drift through immeasurable night, pierced capriciously with shafts of paradoxic day through and beyond the awful circle of yearless duration, my ego lived and knew itself and thrilled with the glory of being. And then suddenly and without shock-like the shifting of the wood smoke-the mood veered, and there was nothing but I. Neihardt (18811973) is the author of several classics, including A Cycle of the West and Eagle Voice Remembers, both available in Bison Books editions. And in it all, one spot of consciousness more acute than other spots and that was the something that had eaten hugely, and that now felt the inward-flung glory of it all the swooning, half-voluptuous sense of awe and wonder, the rippling, shimmering, universal joy. No now, no to-morrow, no yesterday, no I! Only eternity, one vast whole-sun-shot, star-sprent, love-filled, changeless. “I felt the sense of time and self drop away from me.
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