Thursday, April 13, 2023

2000 B.C. emo poetry

"One who has no god, as he walks along the street,

Headache envelops him like a garment." 

- Assyrian cuneiform inscription circa Tukulti's rule

As quoted in Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind," (p. 225)

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