"Wille und Welle"  (Will and Wave) by F. Nietzche
How greedily this wave approaches, as if it were after something! 
How it crawls with terrifying haste into the inmost nooks of this 
labyrinthine cliff! ... it seems that something of value, high 
value, must be hidden there. - And now it comes back, a little
more slowly but still quite white with excitement; is it
disappointed?   Has it found what it looked for?  Does it pretend
to be disappointed? - But already another wave is approaching, still
more greedily and savagely than the first, and its soul too, seems to
be full of secrets and the lust to dig up treasures.  Thus live waves -
[and] thus live we who will... Carry on as you like, roaring with 
overweening pleasure and malice- or dive again... and throw your 
infinite white mane of foam and spray over them:  Everything suits me,
for everything suits you so well, and I am so well disposed toward you
for everything... For... I know you and your secret, I know your kind!  
You and I- are we not of a kind?- You and I- do we not have one secret?
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In reference to the above, Arendt writes, "at first it seems as though we
were dealing with a perfect metaphor... The relation of the waves to 
the sea from which they erupt without intent or aim, create a tremendous
purposeless excitement, resembles and therefore illuminates the turmoil
the Will excites in the household of the soul."
The definition of a classic metaphor is the "perfect resemblance of two
relations between two totally dissimilar things".
Can anyone tell me _why_ the above is NOT a classic Homeric metaphor?
... Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?
--- GEcho 1.11++TAG 2.7c
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