„Pod morom mrakov leží večnosť.“
Originál
But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
Zdroj: Terre des Hommes (1939), Ch. I : The Craft
Kontext: "Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but—"
And I was struck by the graphic image:
"But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity."
And suddenly that tranquil cloud-world, that world so harmless and simple that one sees below on rising out of the clouds, took on in my eyes a new quality. That peaceful world became a pitfall. I imagined the immense white pitfall spread beneath me. Below it reigned not what one might think — not the agitation of men, not the living tumult and bustle of cities, but a silence even more absolute than in the clouds, a peace even more final. This viscous whiteness became in my mind the frontier between the real and the unreal, between the known and the unknowable. Already I was beginning to realize that a spectacle has no meaning except it be seen through the glass of a culture, a civilization, a craft. Mountaineers too know the sea of clouds, yet it does not seem to them the fabulous curtain it is to me.
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iný preklad: Nie je mŕtve to čo môže večne dumať a po zvláštnych érach aj smrť môže skonať.
iný preklad: Nie vždy je mŕtve to, čo nekonečné veky leží nehybne, a v podivných vekoch vekov ani len smrť sa smrti nevyhne.
poviedka: Volanie Cthulhu
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„Sloboda je ako more a more je slobodné vo svojich brehoch.“
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