Turning and turning in the widening gyre

l-he falcon cannot hear the falconer;

l'hings fall apart; t@n.$15gnno!hod;lvlere anarchy is loosed upon the worl(,

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[, Standing at the threshold of che rwentieth century, Nietzsche, one

''bf che most prescient prophets of our time, records the words of a

i'madman":

"n0'hither is (3od?" he cried: "I will tell you. \Ve haae hilled bin-you and i. Al,l of us are his rnurderers. Ilut how did we do this?How couid v'e dnnk up the r;ea? \fho gave us the sponge to wipeaway the entire horizon? \7hrac were we doing whern we unchainedrhis eanh froor its sun? $Thirher is it moving now?'$C'hither arewe moving? ,Away from all suns? Is there srill any up or down?Are we not wanderin g llnen uir nicbt) as through an inEnirenorhing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space ? Has it norbecome colder? Is nor night concinually ciosing in on us? Do wehear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravedigger:; who are bury-ing God? Do we smell norhing as yet of rhe divine decomposi-rion? Gods, too, decompose, God is dead, God remains dead.And we have killed him."'

\firh the dearh of God, there ir; a loss of the center trat for cenrurieshad grounded thoughr, guided iu-dErnent, an? organized experience.As the sun/son that had been the light of the world gradually is

eclipsed, darkn,ess falls and coldness spreads. No I')nger certain ofeither origin or destination, vr'e are left co err through an endless

middle that seems to lead nowlhere. Nietzsche's madman anticipatesthe cold words of Waliace Sceve:ns's "Snow Man. "

For the listener, who listens in the snow,

And, rnthing himself, beholds

Nothir:rg rhar is not ctLere and the nothing that is.t

'1.. Friedrich Nietzsche, Tbe Gay S'cimce, trrns. Wdom House , 197.{), p. 181.

2". The Colleoed Poans of Valhce.lrazazr (New York:

. Kaufmann (New York: Ran-

Knopf, 1981), p. 10.

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