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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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last edited by BillSeitz on Sep 6, 2008 8:13 am

Quote : I've completely lost the ability to think or speak coherently about anything... The abstract words which the tongue must naturally use to express any kind of judgement crumbled in my mouth like rotten mushrooms. ( was quoting [Claudio Ciborra] quoting [Hugo Von Hofmannsthal]. I've tweaked the tranlation to take from [Ritchie Robertson] () essay "Language and the Unsayable in German Thought and Poetry from Nietzsche to Celan". Ritchie continues: Thus he has slipped out of the world of shared meanings (). And if we remember when this text was written, in 1902, we can see that it represents a farewell to nineteenth-century [RealIsm]. For realism depends on assumptions shared by author and reader, with no need always to articulate or justify them. Chandos has slipped out of the nineteenth-century universe of discourse. His life is now grey and dreary, but relieved by moments of heightened awareness, perhaps of mystical experience, in which ordinary objects appear transfigured.) (, )


 



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