Nietzsche’s Satyrs.

The Raven

In my mind, there are two ways to understand the world. First you can always assume you don’t understand and that you must teach yourself to eventually understand, no matter how impossible the subject. This path only leads madness. Why? Magnetism. The other path is to always assume that you understand everything, and whenever you’re proven wrong, you just ignore it and try to understand anyway. I belong to the second group. I’ve never considered myself the most talented physicist, but I’ve always prided myself on the fact that I was the only one in my class on Electromagnetism to ignore the fact that it makes no fucking sense and to actually do the math.

And then I wonder: am I pursuing natural philosophy for any other reason beside the fact that I can do it well? So I recall the day I resolved to be a scientist. I was reading a book about ravens. It said they could see ultraviolet light. This caught my imagination, and since that day I’ve wondered what ultraviolet looks like. Of course I know what it looks like, and when I do my calculations, I think of that. But my imagination always flutters, and I find myself supposing that I were a raven, differentiating ultraviolet from all the other colors.

Relaxing Times

I spent the night on a tropical island in a nice relaxing hammock

A Performance

Metaphorical interpretation

 

Orpheus’ song dims. Nyx casts her veil upon the people, heralding the coming of the Silence. Hypnos obeys his mother’s call and drags our heroes into the bondage of slumber. He beckons for his brother, who springs into motion, murmuring sweet nothings into the weary ears of the sleepers. Silence, they say. Pah! It is nothing but an illusion, frequently interrupted by the coughings and clappings. Yet, as zombies, they stand.

 

Sleptiphorical interpretation

 

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