"History rejects certainty. There are orderly times when everything is wretched, and disorderly times when everything is sublime. Decadent times can be intellectually fertile, and authoritarian times fertile only in feeblemindedness."
The Book of Disquiet. Fernando Pessoa Section 214(410), undated. (Probably 1930-33)
As he read the papers (i.e. his Facebook feed), E@L thinks we've hit the Pessoan jackpot, with all these times at once.
Every post is either wretched, sublime, intellectually fertile, or feebleminded, or combinations and permutations thereof.
Ah, who is he kidding. T'was ever thus. He is certain of that.
E@L
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