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Chet Raymo, “Then To The Elements Be Free”

Thursday, April 27, 2017 16:09

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“Then To The Elements Be Free”

by Chet Raymo

“Be cheerful, Sir.

Our revels are now ended. These our actors,

As I foretold you, were all spirits and

Are melted into air, into thin air;

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on: and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.”

“Surely one of the most beautiful passages in all of dramatic literature, these lines of Prospero in Shakespeare’s “Tempest.” They have a particular resonance with me because I was once involved in staging the “insubstantial pageant” and playing a part- Ariel, that tricksy spirit.

And now the actual pageant fades. The actors- friends and contemporaries- are melting into thin air. Hardy a week goes by that word does not come of another acquaintance slipping away. A sadness, yes. But Prospero whispers, “Be cheerful, Sir.” And then those tender lines, so sweet and reassuring: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep.”

The sea. The air. The teeming creatures. Of dust and sunlight we are conjured up. A dream, each one of us, brief and fleeting and beautiful. Like flowers, like mayflies, like the Sun itself, we flourish and fade. No pageant without us. No cloud-capp’d towers, palaces or temples. We are the dream of the Earth. In us the Earth become self-aware, the universe becomes conscious.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2017/04/chet-raymo-then-to-elements-be-free.html

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