Re: DIE SCHERE #25: Text, translation, notes

[richard_al <richard_al@csi.com>]

Günter Rebing wrote:

> He closes with one of his masterful memorable images: local visionaries saw Napoleon's
> troops riding through Westphalia when the future emperor was still a cadet at military
> academy.
> 
> (1)  I think "second sight" is an appropriate translation since the Encyclopedia Britannica
> 11th edition says: "SECOND SIGHT, a term denoting the opposite of its apparent significance,
> meaning in reality the seeing, in vision, of events BEFORE they occur. "Foresight" expresses
> the meaning of second sight, which perhaps was originally so called because normal vision
> was regarded as coming first, while supernormal vision is a secondary thing, confined to
> certain individuals. (vol. 24, p. 570)

 If we take an historical comparison (it's only an observation, not a
theory,
comparison is not reason), before Alexander invade Persia, some little
armied 
greek groups cross Persia just like in butter. The second sight often
has 
a real base. The conquests of N were helped by the ideas of 1789, which
part 
of the populations support. But what will become the bonapartist regime 
(a popular right, follow my eyes), is very favourable to the titans, and
first
for his army. The religion is considered as an instrument of power, the
pope 
Pie VII is emprisonned if he doesn't agree. After there was the Holy
Alliance
of Metternich, but the movement was launched. The fight keeps on.

The best wishes for a great year 1999 to all listmembers.

richard