Castalia
Nation as poetry, with a taste of Stefan George
Dear Friends,
It is a long process, getting the discount; one must download an app… But lady and waitress remain good-humored. As the lady at last gets down to her sundae, she tells the girl: “Thank you, child”.
“Thank you, child” — in these words, the shining forth of nation. The older sees the younger as her child — can do this, because younger sees older as mother.
Seeing as — yes, nation is poetry. Two mortals body forth an eternal image.
Participation in this image constrains their freedom; the younger is responsible to the older, the older responsible for the younger. Yet it is also fulfillment: the gathering up of earthly experience upon a heavenly altar.
Goethe writes of this: “All passing things are but a simile”. 1And Rilke: “We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather up the honey of the visible to store in the great golden hive of the Invisible.”2
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