Submitting for Feels, because I relate to Ariadne like woah.
A Lament without Sadness Dionysus! What are you to me! You are joyful anguish. You are a shudder of delight. You are my necessary madness. Out of you I sing. Out of you I love. Dionysus, you manifest in a human soul, A soul able to house you, to break of you, To bring you to all through women. Dance, beat the feet, wave the water's arm. Can my heart which lies as still as a mirror be the music of word?Dancing, leaping through eternity, My cry is pitched to break, to shatter the distance between us. My cry is a wail, a wail that wishes to embrace you, icy peak, Not to melt you in my warmth, but to be like fire to your ice, To mix the elements to bring them to a clear frozen path of life, That dancing feet may slip and slid on hot toes Along the joy which speaks far above all suffering.Dionysus, your call brings me out of myself, Or your call first brings me to myself. I want to wed with you. I want to wed. I want the nuptial ring of rings. Two souls which are all souls. Bring all hearts, scorch them, wanton rhapsody, erotica... Dionysus, a mortal you are and are not. An eternal fisherman on high mountains singing! Ariadne, you are caught, you are wedded!Sing, sing, rhapsodize, rhapsodize clearly, like a crystal summit, the diamond glint rays shower all around. The points of the rays hurt, pain into the happiness, Which is the horizon of all humankind.My answer skims across the rocking waves My answer, my song, my dance, enfolds your enfolding great tempter god. I have yearned to call back to you,I, the crown of stars which you yourself threw into the night sky. My song, too, is the song of a lover, invisibly touched. Now fire signals the flame of our two icy sun-star hearts. We step into the little death boat wearing rose-wreath crowns of laughter.We eternal buffoons, we eternally entwined fools. —Does anyone hear us?These songs and preliminaries herald the wedding of Dionysus and Ariadne. Let the wedding begin! -- Claudia Crawford, To Nietzche: Dionysus, I Love You! Ariadne
