Tuesday, October 21, 12:30
Phrases which come back to me, to make me shudder; of Aeschylus, I believe: ‘Desire nothing too much, lest the
jealous
gods forbid it.'
And how I desire this thing!
In spite of the gods … that is the only reply!
— Michel Vieuchange, Smara, the Forbidden
City
(E.P. Dutton, 1932)