My Eternal Lover & Mentor ~
"Jorge Luis Borges"
/Library Ticket/
I've travelled the World twice over,
Met the famous: Saints and Sinners,
Poets and Artists, Kings and Queens,
Old stars and hopeful Beginners,
I've been where no-one's been before,
Learned secrets from Writers
and Cooks,
All with one "Library Ticket",
To the wonderful World of books.
- JANICE JAMES
The movement of atoms is eternal.
Thrown through the void,
either by their own weight
or by the impact of other atoms,
they wander
until chance brings them together.
Some of them manage to cling together;
they form the most solid bodies.
Others,
more mobile,
are separated by a greater distance;
they form the less dense bodies,
air and light.
Some did not wish to be admitted to any group;
they move around gloriously and endlessly in space,
like dust motes lit up by rays of light in a dark room.
[from Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, recited by Rousseau in La vallée close]
~ This seemingly simple poetry reminds us that every work of Art is relative to the Grand Time wherein it was sprout, and is to be judged thus. We won't/ might not hold a good opinion when we read and consider these lines now, after two decades of Stephen Hawking and 'A Brief History of Time'. This poem was written in First Century BC, by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius. Now, do we ought to re-think and re-consider our opinion? Epicurean Physics, atomism, the nature of the mind and soul, explanations of sensation and thought, the development of the world and its phenomena, a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena, arguments about God, Lucretius' Physics - everything is here, in these simple lines of poetry ~
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