Floating Dust Comments

Scholars, critics, and psychologists have written at length about how or what the informing voice, or analeptic thought, might be; then sometimes we happen upon the naïve raw experience of those things, unencumbered by preconcept, synthesis, or analysis. A special moment. Then Gunther sought Siegfried and said: 'Now counsel me in this. On the morrow our guests ride forth, and they desire of me and mine a lasting covenant. What they offer I will tell thee: as much gold as five hundred horses may carry, they will give me to go free.' And Siegfried answered: 'That were ill done. Send them forth without ransom, that they ride no more hither as foeman. And they shall give thee the hand thereon for surety.' (Story of the Nibelungs)