untitled (Now divide the unit world in two)

… Now divide the unit world in two and call these twins habitual day and night; assign to one the dream that works our rest, and to the other, memory—this done, this is a man: born one, grown up two, a double citizen of neighbor countries, each foreign across the border to his other, although each whole to his own eye. What then when a man must meet his states, and at the junction of his day and night combust the singular fire of a sun and moon when he makes these twin lights twilight? …

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