brief-2026-05-10 · card 3
BRIEF-2026-05-10-03
What does this passage call the source of life force? Where do yours come from?
Theme: energy · card 3/4 · 2026-05-10
After all, one just "has no ear for it"; and so the most marked contrasts of style are not heard, and the most delicate artistry is as it were SQUANDERED on the deaf.--These were my thoughts when I noticed how clumsily and unintuitively two masters in the art of prose-writing have been confounded: one, whose words drop down hesitatingly and coldly, as from the roof of a damp cave--he counts on their dull sound and echo; and another who manipulates his language like a flexible sword, and from his arm down into his toes feels the dangerous bliss of the quivering, over-sharp blade, which wishes to bite, hiss, and cut.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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