And deeper that did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my books."-The Tempest
If I thought my answers were to one who could return to the world, I would not reply, but as none ever did return alive from this depth, without fear of infamy I answer thee.- Dante's Inferno (beginning of the Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock)
"For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume
the practical available supremacy over other men, without the aid of some sort
of external arts and entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry
and base. This it is, that forever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from
the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to
those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the
choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted
superiority over the dead level of the mass."-Melville, Moby Dick
Ch.33
The Divine Inert.
The Quinta Essentia-(The Ether)
The Inherent Knowledge
The Common Logic
The Esoteric Knowledge
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
to swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advice the prince; no doubt, an easy tool
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-
Almost, at times, the Fool."-Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
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