Fall Fom The Quotidian Poem by gershon hepner

The fall from the quotidian
affects us post meridiem;
if you’ve got thoughts, then say ’em
before high noon, in a.m.

A. S. Byatt discusses Saul Bellow’s Moses Herzog in “Novel thoughts: A way out of narcissism? ” in TLS, November 30,2007:

Moses Herzog, the hero of Bellow’s Herzog (1964) is Jewish, and a scholar who studies European Romanticism. His two names, Hebrew Moses, Germanic Herzog, define him ironically as a leader of men–he cries out, from time to time, that he wantd to be a marvellus Herzog. But he is entangled in sexual disasters, cut of by successive ex-wives from his children, bodily and mentally in a mess. He writes an increasingly wild series of letters to the living and the dead, and one of the phrases that recurs is a question to Heidegger about “the fall from the Quotidian”. A fall into the quotidian––is what has happened to the marvelous Herzog, a clever idiot. He writes to an ex-tutor about the general “hatred of the present”.

12/7/07