Joseph Anthony’s Reviews > Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian > Status Update

Each of us believed that he was escaping from the narrow limits of his human state, feeling himself to be at the same time himself & his own adversary, at one w/ the god who seems to be both the animal victim & the human slayer. Such fantastic dreams, which sometimes terrify me now, were not so very different from the theories of Heraclitus upon the identity of the mark & the bow.