Commonwealth
What is the one thing in man that hasn't changed over the centuries? I'm trying to decide on a solid answer…funny how the word 'insanity' keeps ringing in my mind.
Deliriousness is immeasurable, but has it changed through the years? …the suffering of the mind can accentuate its sickness, and the same dark halo is drawn to seize it.
The insane can perceive things that will never be invented, horrors that won't be discovered. Does that make insanity universal? Or contemporary in every century ?
A poem by Emily Dickinson came to my mind. Poem number 453 says:
Much Madness is divinest Sense—
To a discerning Eye—
Much Sense—the starkest Madness—
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail—
Assent—and you are sane—
Demur—you're straightway dangerous—
And handled with a Chain—
I just can't seem to think of something reasonable.
Deliriousness is immeasurable, but has it changed through the years? …the suffering of the mind can accentuate its sickness, and the same dark halo is drawn to seize it.
The insane can perceive things that will never be invented, horrors that won't be discovered. Does that make insanity universal? Or contemporary in every century ?
A poem by Emily Dickinson came to my mind. Poem number 453 says:
Much Madness is divinest Sense—
To a discerning Eye—
Much Sense—the starkest Madness—
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail—
Assent—and you are sane—
Demur—you're straightway dangerous—
And handled with a Chain—
I just can't seem to think of something reasonable.
posted by Mystique at 12:43 AM
1 Comments:
Dear Dark,
On that note... allow me to invoke Teasdale:
What has man done that only he
Is slave to death -- so brutally
Beaten back into the earth
Impatient for him since his birth?
Truly,
Misguided
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