![]() But when applied to Shakespeare biography, intrinsic, unique, irreplaceable individuality turns out to be multiple, relational, a family affair. Creation is an immense multiplicity of individualities, of differences that emanate from a great commonality, a great simplicity: each thing does ‘one thing’, which is also ‘the same’: being itself. Action expresses essential being: being functions in utterance, in speaking and spelling. But ‘being’ is also doing, since each thing speaks its individuality by ‘doing’ itself, performing its being. ![]() Every living creature has within it, ‘indoors’, its own essence, its ‘being’ (‘being indoors each one dwells’). ![]() Gerard Manly Hopkins’s magnificent poem 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire' is the most extreme statement of identity as ‘self’: intrinsic, unique, irreplaceable selfhood. ![]()
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