"The 'Transcendental Deduction,' which is the central section of the Critique of Pure Reason, deals with relations between subject and object in so intricate a way that, though particular insights are perfectly clear, the unintelligible character of the whole seems to stand out as the essential fact." --Karl Jaspers
Life Beyond the Earth (p. 72)--one of my golden books. Where i got HgBr2 from. He has a crater on Mars named after him.
"Dream of Evil
A gong’s brown-golden tones no longer loud--
A lover wakes in chambers growing dimmer,
His cheek near flames that in the window glimmer
Upon the stream flash rigging, mast and shroud.
A monk, a pregnant woman in the crowd;
Guitars are strumming, scarlet dresses shimmer.
In golden gleam the chestnuts shrink and simmer;
The churches’ mournful pomp looms black and proud.
The evil spirit peers from masks of white.
A square grows gloomy, hideous and stark;
Whispers arise on islands in the dark.
Lepers, who rot away perhaps at night,
Read convoluted omens of birdflight.
Siblings eye each other, trembling in the park."
--Georg Trakl, Song of the West (tr R Firmage 1988)
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