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I did my high level mathematics in the school of the sea. (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)

I did my high level mathematics in the school of the sea. (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)

It took me a long time to understand what humility means, and it’s the fault of those who taught me to place it on the opposite pole of pride. You must tame the Concept of Existence inside you, if you are to understand it.

 

One day, as I felt everything has abandoned me, and a great sorrow was slowly falling into my soul, while walking in those pastures with no salvation, I pulled a little branch out of an unknown bush. I cut it and brought it to my upper lip. Immediately (as I did this) I understood that Man is Innocent. I decyphered this from the odour, sour from the Truth, so intensely, that it made my steps follow it lightly, with my heart like an Apostle’s. Till, very deeply, I became fully conscious of the fact, that all religions are lying.

 

 

Yes! Paradise was not a Nostalgia, nor (even more so) a Reward. It was a Right

 

I did my high level mathematics in the school of the sea. Here are some operations for example:

1. Ιf you dissociate Greece, in the end you’ll see that all is left is: an olive tree, a vineyard and a ship. Which means: with all these you can make it up again.
2.The product of scented herbs x Innocence always gives the figure of some Jesus Christ.
3.Happiness is the right proportion between deeds (figures) and emotions (colours). Our life is cut and oughts to be cut, as much as Matisse cut his coloured papers.
4.Wherever you see fig trees, there you find Greece. Wherever the mountain projects up its name,there is a poet. Lust is not deductible.
5. An evening in the Aegean includes sorrow and joy in so equal doses that nothing is left but the truth.
6.Any progress in the moral level can be nothing but conversely proportionate to the ability that have power and numbers to define our destinies.
7.Αn “Anchorite” for the one half of people, is nevertheless “Forthcoming” for the other half.

 

 

 

The Little Mariner
Odysseus Elytis

 

Source: https://www.lezenswaard.be/view/1904/greek-modern-elytis-odysseas



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