This post was suggested by the recent Log24
posts Film Politics, The Wind Rises, and
Figure and Ground, as well as the related
Wikipedia article The Wind Has Risen.
Cover design by Helen Yentus.
Μή, φίλα ψυχά, βίον ἀθάνατον σπεῦδε,
τὰν δ' ἔμπρακτον ἄντλει μαχανάν.
— Pindar, Pythian III , epigraph to
Le Cimetière Marin by Paul Valéry (1920)
O mon âme, n’aspire à la vie immortelle,
mais épuise le champ du possible.
— Pindar, 3e Pythique , epigraph to
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (1942)
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.
— Pindar, Pythian iii , as translated
from the French (or Greek) by Justin O'Brien
in the Knopf Myth of Sisyphus , 1955