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Immortality seems to have been the object of the searcher’s quest. From ancient times till today people have sought to conquer death, but the consequence of immortality is a neverending and repetitious sequence of days. In Friedrich Nietszche’s Zarathustra’s Prologue, section 5, Zarathustra proclaims, “I will show you the last man”, and says that the last man lives the longest. The “last man” is a contemptible figure, who claims to have invented happiness.
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The goal of the quest, the conquest of death, man’s final enemy. But what lies beyond this victory?
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Fasting implies an ascetic mode of life, such as is practiced by one seeking a spiritual breakthrough. Honeydew implies a mysterious substance which transforms its ingester. In Plato’s dialogue Ion, the Maenads, under the intoxicating influence of Dionysus, draw milk and honey from rivers.
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The word Xanadu is repeated, incantation-like, but now the searcher has arrived. The pleasure dome is a kind of paradise, out of time, (E)utopia, both a good place and no place. The word dome connotes a place enclosed from everything, even the skies.
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From Kubla Khan (a 13th century Mongol) to Purchas (17th c.) to Coleridge (late 18th c.) to Peart, a numinous skein of legend bears a promise of mystery to the listener.
Kubla Khan:
Samuel Purchas:
Coleridge:
Peart:
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Probably from the Greek river Alpheus, which flows into the Ionian Sea, and is said to rise again in Sicily as the Fountain of Arethusa.
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The Islamic paradise, in Arabic Jannah, here, Muslims believe, all desires will find fulfillment.
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Peart accepts the inevitability of war, in sharp contrast to those who, at the time dubbed World War I “the war to end all wars.” Of course, World War II, the bloodiest war in human history, followed just twenty years later. Since then, it has seemed to some commentators, such as Noam Chomsky, that a state of perpetual war is fomented by the powerful, to their own financial benefit.
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