What is a Rune? & Other Essays by Cleary Collin

Author:Cleary, Collin [Cleary, Collin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Henrik Ibsen, Martin Heidegger, Asatru philosophy, religion, neopaganism, Cave art
ISBN: 9781935965817
Publisher: Counter-Currents Publishing
Published: 2015-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

SOCRATES: They thunder, as they roll.

STREPSIADES: In what way, you all-daring man?

SOCRATES: When they are filled up with much water and are compelled to be borne along by necessity, hanging down full of rain, then they heavily fall into each other, bursting and clapping.

But Strepsiades responds to this theory with a very reasonable question: “Who is it that compels them to be borne along? Isn’t it Zeus?” Socrates has a ready answer: “Not in the least. It’s ethereal vortex.” Strepsiades’s response is amusing, but pregnant with significance: “Vortex? I hadn’t noticed that Zeus didn’t exist and that instead of him Vortex is now king.” Later, Socrates has more success with Pheidippides, Strepsiades’s son. Near the end of the play, a thoroughly corrupted Pheidippides commits the cardinal sin of beating his old father, and the following exchange takes place between them:

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