Unlikeness

In Region of Unlikeness 1991, the schizophrenic voices command the poet to "make detail withdraw its hot hand, / its competing naturalness."

Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011

In Region of Unlikeness 1991, the schizophrenic voices command the poet to "make detail withdraw its hot hand, / its competing naturalness."

Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011

Unlikeness alone often brings it to life; to be too different from others is recognized as a legitimate reason for hatred.

The Foundations of Personality 1921

Intervals; and perhaps there may be other points of Unlikeness.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846

Unlikeness may attract, but it is likeness which retains; and in proportion to the likeness is the suitability of the individuals to give each other a happy life.

The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill 1839

These Generals (continues _Carneades_) being thus premis'd, we might the better survey the Unlikeness that an attentive and unprepossess'd observer may take notice of in each sort of Bodies which the Chymists are wont to call the salts or sulphurs or Mercuries of the Concretes that yield Them, as if they had all a simplicity, and Identity of

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

We are become dwellers in the Place of Unlikeness, where, fallen from all our resemblance to the Divine, we lie in gloom and mud: for if the Soul abandons itself unreservedly to the extreme of viciousness, it is no longer a vicious Soul merely, for mere vice is still human, still carries some trace of good: it has taken to itself another nature, the Evil, and as far as Soul can die it is dead.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

St. Maximus Confessor and Christian Hospitality at The Land of Unlikeness:

Notes from underground 2009