{"id":2336,"date":"2025-01-26T21:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:54:26","slug":"a-lament-upon-lost-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=2336","title":{"rendered":"A Lament For Lost Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"889\" src=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Johannes_Moreelse_-_Heraclitus_-_Google_Art_Project-1024x889.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Johannes_Moreelse_-_Heraclitus_-_Google_Art_Project-1024x889.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Johannes_Moreelse_-_Heraclitus_-_Google_Art_Project-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Johannes_Moreelse_-_Heraclitus_-_Google_Art_Project-768x667.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Johannes_Moreelse_-_Heraclitus_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Johannes_Moreelse_-_Heraclitus_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\">\u201c<em>Heraclitus\u201d by<\/em> <em>Johannes Moreelse<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My heart is weighed down at times<br>By things illegible to rhymes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For when I think of those faded ages<br>When thought and life alike were covered in fresh mist,<br>The days distant yet known, days of arcane Greek sages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lament, and consider Fate\u2019s cruel twist:<br>Heraclitus and Parmenides survive in scattered verse\u2014<br>While the laurel is thrust upon every pervert, boor, and feminist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flagrant filth is the \u201cnobleness\u201d of the diverse;<br>With minds like them how can we get worse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet when I read those ancient lines and what lies behind,<br>What freshness, delight, and wisdom I find!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postmoderns cannot cure our woes;<br>Hellas\u2019 shadowed sages had not the Light, but they saw more right<br>Than bigots who get their morals from Jewish TV shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day the proud will be cast from their height<br>To be seen nevermore, cast into an eternal storm of a fiery night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose who seek gold dig up much earth but find little.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Heraclitus, (Fragment B22)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44,22,10,30],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-greece","tag-history","tag-philosophy","tag-social-critique"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}