1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
Book: Decreation, Anne Carson
Sentence : This is the condition called ekstasis, literally "standing outside oneself," a condition regarded by the Greeks as typical of mad persons, geniuses and lovers, and ascribed to poets by Aristotle.
I have to admit, I love it the category the poets are lumped into. It reminds me of Kerouac, the "mad to burn" Roman-candle people; leave it to the Greeks to decide that anyone with any type of passion must be mad! To paraphrase Doc Holliday in Tombstone, "Very Dionysian."
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