Eidolon

Eidolon (ειδωλον), según la mitología griega es una copia astral de un difunto, este doble espectral de forma humana, que se remonta a la Odisea de Homero, llega hasta nuestros días gracias a la obra del poeta mallorquín Pedro Juan Gomila Martorell, que le ha dedicado un díptico compuesto por los poemarios "Arcadia desolada" (Eidolon I) y "En la tierra de Nod" (Eidolon II, 2015), ambos publicados por la colección de Poesía de Ed. La Lucerna.

Our scooping finite mind, which is jostling athwart the fleeting and hitherandthitering reality from morning to night, is prone to sublime chimeras, to helter-skelter expressions without some tail tressed by adjectives or some head made of nouns, and to descry odds from the top of its wavering teleology. We can regard this hodgepodge of mental movements, with Kant, as the main crux of the “human intellect” in an “unphilosophical state” (1). The bleak lack of philosophy leads us to give an apparent rhapsodical accommodation to the sundry deeds of the world, and such an arrayment stands for a “Weltanschauung”, which is conveyed through religious words (2), which as spells hie us to believe in divinities. This apparent rhapsodical accommodation might be called “common sense”.