The Deification of Things in Mankind

Anicha says, he's quoting from sophocles. Oedipus at colonus. There is an ancient story that king midas hunted in the forest a long time for the wise selenus without capturing him. When selenus at fell into his hands, the king asked what was the best and most desirable of all things for man, fixed and immovable. The demigod gave a shrill laugh and broke out into these words, o wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and misery. What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach. Not to be born, not to be to be nothing. This point will become emphasized more as we