The Root of All Evil
Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania
Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way.
—Friedrich Hölderlin
from Hyperion and Selected Poems, trans. Michael Hamburger
All my vital fluid comes in a bottle, so I rarely run out. But too much of it makes my links go awry as well….
Oops! <A HREF="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/balzac.htm" REL="nofollow"><I>This</I></A> is the link I meant to give. See what happens when you use up your “vital fluid”?
Short post, long on information. Thanks for the excellent quote and links. I’ve been enjoying and linking to Petri Liukkonen’s “Authors’ Calendar” biographies for several years — in fact, that’s where I learned Balzac and I have the same <A HREF="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm" REL="nofollow">birthday</A>. Whoopee!