Zitat von Zettel

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Ich zitiere jetzt, lieber Bernd, Shakespeare aus dem Gedächtnis, weil ich mit meiner neu gewonnen Freiheit zu faul geworden bin, so etwas zu verifizieren. Es wird ja Zimmerleute geben, die das tun:[quote="Shakespeare"]To die, to sleep.

To sleep, perchance to dream.

Ay, there's the rub.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off that mortal coil

Must give us pause. There's the fatality

that makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourns no traveller returns, must give us halt

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Ich kann nicht umhin, hier an ein Gedicht von Edgar Allan Poe zu denken:

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?


Wikipedia:
"A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. The poem questions the way one can distinguish between reality and fantasy, asking, "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" ...."A Dream Within a Dream" reflects Poe's feelings about his life at the time, dramatizing his confusion in watching the important things in his life slip away.[1] Realizing he cannot hold onto even one grain of sand leads to his final question that all things are a dream."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dream_Within_a_Dream

Herzlich,
Anna