Feb 14, 2020
he must have trembled at each step he took
“The wind rustles the oak leaves: it is the voice of a god which speaks, and the trembling prophet listens, his face bent towards earth. What is the trembling that the mystic priest feels as on a storm night he draws close to the sacred oak? […] One of the strangest and deepest sensations that prehistory has left with us is the sensation of foretelling. It will always exist. It is like an eternal proof of the senselessness of the universe. The first man must have seen auguries everywhere, he must have trembled at each step he took.” — Giorgio de Chirico, Hebdomeros (Exact Change, Jan 1, 1992)