(soon)
2/24/2004 7:08 PM
The path
forward
Return to the founding agrarian spirit of America
"powerfully gripped by the vision of transitoriness: the way before our eyes such a complex, ancient, venerable organism, slowly built up over many generations, reaches its highest point, which already contains the germ of decay, and the whole intelligently articulated structure begins to droop, to degenerate, to totter towards its doom, and at the same time the thought abruptly shot through me, with a joyfull, startled, amazement, that despite the decay and death of that language it had not been lost, that its youth, maturity, and downfall were preserved in our memory, in our knowledge of it and its history, and would survive and could at any time be reconstructed in the symbols and formulas of scholarship as well as in the recondite formulations of the glass bead game,"
pp104-105 (Ludi)