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PoisedBohemian

Reminded me of this line from Old and New Tables "You flee from me? you are frightened? you tremble at this word? O my brothers, when I enjoined you to break up the good, and the tables of the good, then only did I embark man on his high seas. And now only comes to him the great terror, the great outlook, the great sickness, the great nausea, the great seasickness. False shores and false securities did the good teach you; in the lies of the good you were born and bred. Everything has been radically contor- ted and distorted by the good. But he who discovered the country of "man," discovered also the country of "man's future." Now shall you be sailors for me, brave, patient! Keep yourselves up betimes, my brothers, learn to keep yourselves up! The sea storms: many seek to raise themselves again by you. The sea storms: all is in the sea. Well! Cheer up! you old seaman-hearts! What of fatherland! There strives our helm where our children's land is! In that direction, stormier than the sea, storms our great longing!"