Tears of humanity, tears of humanity,
flowing eternally early and late…
Flowing invisibly, flowing in secrecy,
ever abundantly, ever unceasingly –
flowing as rain flows with autumn finality
all through the night like a river in spate
(1849) Fyodor Tyutchev
translation Peter Tempest
Monument to the Dead (1895) by French sculptor Albert Bartholomé
THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not
Federico Garcia Lorca “Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire.
THE SIRENS ARE ENCHANTERS Circe warns Odysseus about the Sirens: “You will come first of all
