There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply. (254)
(Anima est vita corporis, una in toto. From Comenius' Orbis pictus (1658), snagged from here.)
2 comments:
methinks, Miss Whitney, you've an an emblematist become. baroque liftings from Comenius and Benjamin!
I know! :) There's something so simple yet lovely and bizarre about that image from Comenius..
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