"And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes back into thee."
Pessoa, who studied Nietzsche's writings, made large part of his work an essay on the Ego. Portuguese Sea romanticizes the human spirit of adventure and discovery (of times long gone?). What were the great navigators truly searching for? Is there a place for a quest for heroism in the era of information, and where does it inexorably take us?
Undreamt dreams, vain hopes, struggle. To be lost in a borderless world fitting in the palm of a hand. In the sky's reflection, the great abyss of self, not underneath but within.
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