coffee break in the wee hours
I am writing this post on my new MacBook, enjoying Vivaldi, drinking coffee, taking a break from Sophocles. My house is now armed with a security system, we rearranged the furniture, and will soon be making an investment in some actual art. Panta rei!
Leopardi’s Thoughts has occupied my bedside and I am finding him something of a kindred spirit, though I am not nearly as pessimistic as he is. His poetry I find particularly poignant, such as this passage from his last poem, “the broom:”
Often, on these bare slopes
Clothed in a kind of mourning
By stone waves which apparently still ripple,
I sit by night, and see the distant stars
High in the clear blue sky
Flame down upon this melancholy waste,
And see them mirrored by
The distant sea, till all this universe
Sparkles throughout its limpid emptiness.
Am I more optimistic, or more naïve?
JB Aug 3
Well that is quite the contrast! Thanks for making me grin.
I hear you friended Jason, and I hope it is OK but I gave Michaels mother your site address.