The Sublime & Beautiful vs. Reality

This blog is a record of one man's struggle to search for scientific, philosophical, and religious truth in the face of the limitations imposed on him by economics, psychology, and social conditioning; it is the philosophical outworking of everyday life in contrast to ideals and how it could have been.


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The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God
and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
--Johannes Kepler

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Languages: testimonies & remnants of our civilization: 001

In this following poem written in medævil German, which I could not translate with the modern anti-babel online helps, is written:

Ich sih die liehte heide
in gruner varwe stan.
Dar süln wir alle gehen,
die sumerzit enphahen.

{Remember in German the "ss" is "s", the "s" is "z", and the "z" it "ts".}

Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny and myself think it means thus:

I see the light-stricken thicket
in green somehow it stands.
We will all soon go
and leave behind the summer time.

This speaks of the sun-struck woodland.
As PKD & RZ say, it was life and the leaving of life fused.

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