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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? the iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

-W. G. Sebald

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To Set One's Name To A Work

W. G. Sebald

To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? the iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

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Men are four; he who knows and knows not that he knows. he is asleep; wake him. he who knows not and knows not that he knows not. he is a fool; shun him. he who knows not and knows that he knows not. he is a child; teach him. he who knows and knows that he knows. he is a king; follow him. the heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. it is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. no matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. no matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. it will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

There are four types of men in this world: 1. the man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. the man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. the man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Knowing god without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. knowing our own wretchedness without knowing god makes for despair. knowing jesus christ strikes the balance because he shows us both god and our own wretchedness.

In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long ago.

My name is mankiller, and in the old cherokee nation, when we lived here in the southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. and i'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.

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