Dialogue on the Threshold

Schwellendialog

14 October 2021

A sev'rall world

 

ὁ Ἡράκλειτός φησι τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι

Heraclitus says that to the waking there is one world in common, but sleepers dwell each one in a several world.

Plutarch, De superstitione, 166c

 

Here we are all by day; by night w'are hurled

By dreams, each one into a sev'rall world. 

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

 
 

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