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Thursday, 07 August 2008
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that
crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy south-wind, making a path
under surges that threaten to engulf him; and Earth, the eldest of the
gods, the immortal, the unwearied, doth he wear, turning the soil with the
offspring of horses, as the ploughs go to and fro from year to year.
And the light-hearted race of birds, and the tribes of savage
beasts, and the sea-brood of the deep, he snares in the meshes of his
woven toils, he leads captive, man excellent in wit. And he masters by his
arts the beast whose lair is in the wilds, who roams the hills; he tames
the horse of shaggy mane, he puts the yoke upon its neck, he tames the
tireless mountain bull.
And speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods that mould a
state, hath he taught himself; and how to flee the arrows of the frost,
when 'tis hard lodging under the clear sky, and the arrows of the rushing
rain; yea, he hath resource for all; without resource he meets nothing
that must come: only against Death shall he call for aid in vain; but from
baffling maladies he hath devised escapes.
Cunning beyond fancy's dream is the fertile skill which brings him, now
to evil, now to good. When he honours the laws of the land, and that
justice which he hath sworn by the gods to uphold, proudly stands his
city: no city hath he who, for his rashness, dwells with sin. Never may he
share my hearth, never think my thoughts, who doth these things!
Sophocles, Antigone, c. 442 BC
Life is beautiful, but the world is hell.
Harold Pinter, interview, 2006
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