Sisyphus
“I’m filled with a desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither.”
Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus
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On listening to Shostakovich Symphony No.11 (The Year 1905).
The Winter Palace sleeps in a cold blue dawn of stillness. Oh that it could sleep forever like this, frozen in time. Hard is the soil. Still is the air Gentle the sky And when the morning breaks that it should stay undisturbed. Oh morning do not come and bring your horror. But morning broke…
To thine own self be true
‘To thine own self be true’ Polonius, Act 1 Scene 3, Hamlet
Man is a God …
Man is a god in ruins who has forgotten his own divinity.
Illumination
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years – and it opens….