“A ‘free State’ is the freedom of a power that rules and subjugates me.”

Read along: The Ego and Its Own, ch. 2.3 ("the Free")

Hi Friends,

Hope you had a great week. A lot of what we do here, when we read these authors, is attempt to find some coherent picture in a jumble of esoteric fragments. When the author writes in clear prose, this is not the most difficult task. But when the author writes in verse, we venture into unknown waters where we cannot always feel certain of inte…