Word: membra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edepol severae Musae tragoediae quibus tantum borribiles irae et mortes pallidae placent. Et non Venus benigna inter nos incedit sed illa Venus dirissima quae tantummodo incastos ritus saeviter fovet. O collegium Harvardianum, quale exemplum maestissimum ver et Venus tibi protulit! Ubinam gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis pura castitate...
...that 'spiritual duration' which is manifest in the evolution of thought, the attention roams distractedly and fails to grasp the unity of culture: only scattered components remain in the mind-ruins, one might almost say. At best, when the youthful mind strives to connect these disjecta membra without having in its possession the means necessary to resurrect them-the historical sequence, the sense of time, the network of causal relations-the student is led to formulate hazardous inductions, fantastic or superficial comparisons, pitiful attempts at synthesis which bring out clearly the disparity between the desire for an integrated...