I must have had a real Nietzschean phase once, although I can barely remember it. Anyway, I appear to have copied this out twice:
Horizon: Infinity--We have left ther land and taken to our ship! We have burned our bridges--more, we have burned our land behind us! Now, little ship, take care! The ocean lies all around you; true, it is not always roaring, and sometimes it lies there as if it were silken and golden and a gentle favorable dream. And there will be times when you will know that it is infinite and that there is nothing more terrible than infinity...Alas, if homesickness for land should assail you, as if there were no more freedom there--and there is no longer any 'land.'!
--Friedrich Nietzsche, Gay Science
Three exclamation points. What was I thinking?
1 comment:
Should be: "Alas, if homesickness for land should assail you, as if there were more freedom there--and there is no longer any 'land.'!
If you say that there "were no more freedom," well, then, why should one long for such a place?
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