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Show yourselves in proud elf- form, instead,Calm all the fierce resistance of his heart,Remove the bitter barbs of sharp remorse,Free him from past terrors, by your art. Four are the watches night makes in its course,At once, now, mercifully, let the dark depart. Let his head sink down on pillow’s coolness,Next sprinkle him with dew from Lethe’s stream: Then let his joints be free of cramps and stiffness, 4. So that he’s strong enough to greet day’s gleam: Elves exert your sweetest right,Return him to the holy light! Choir (Singly, and two or more, alternately and together.)When the balmy breezes smother. All the green- encircled land, 4. Sweetly fragrant and mist- covered,Twilight gathers all around. Sweet peace then whispers softly,Rocks the heart on childhood’s shores,And on the eyelids, tired and weary,Closes daylight’s golden doors. Here the night’s already passing,Sacred stars set, star by star,Great lights, and the lesser glittering,Sparkling near, and gleaming far: 4. 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Sparkling, where the lake reflects her,Gleaming bright in cloudless height,Protecting the deep bliss of rest, there,Moon, in splendour, rules the night. The hours have vanished now, already 4. Joy and pain have flown away,You are whole! Recover, wholly: Trust the sight of breaking day. Greening valleys, swelling hills there,Rise from out their shadowy sleep: 4. And, drifting in its waves of silver,On to harvest, flows the wheat. Wish then, to achieve your wishes,Gaze up, at the brightness there! You are lightly tangled: this is 4. Sleep, a shell, so now emerge! Don’t delay, walk bravely, tall,When the crowd waits, hesitating: The noblest man achieves his all,By seeing, and then, swiftly, taking. Hear the hour nearing! Ringing out to spirit- hearing,Now, the new day is appearing. Doors of stone creak and chatter,Phoebus’ wheels roll and clatter, 4. What a din the daylight’s bringing! Trombone- and trumpeting,Eyes amazed, and ears ringing,The Unheard drops out of hearing. Slip into the flowers presence, 4. Deeper, deeper, lie there silent,In the pebbles, where the leaves bend: If it strikes you, you’ll be deafened. Faust Life’s pulses beating now, with new existence,Greet the mild ethereal half- light round me: 4. You, Earth, stood firm tonight, as well: I sense. Your breath is quickening all the things about me,Already, with that joy you give, beginning. To stir the strengthening resolution in me,That strives, forever, towards highest Being. Love, is it, then? This fierce embrace,The joy and pain of alternating pyres,So that, gazing back to earth again,We seek to veil ourselves in youth’s desire. Let the sun shine on, behind me, then! The waterfall that splits the cliffs’ broad edge,I gaze at with a growing pleasure, when. A thousand torrents plunge from ledge to ledge,And still a thousand more pour down that stair,Spraying the bright foam skywards from their beds. And in lone splendour, through the tumult there,The rainbow’s arch of colour, bending brightly,Is clearly marked, and then dissolved in air,Around it the cool showers, falling lightly. There the efforts of mankind they mirror. Reflect on it, you’ll understand precisely: We live our life amongst refracted colour. Scene II: The Emperor’s Castle: The Throne Room(A council of state waits for the Emperor. Trumpets.)(Enter court attendants of all kinds, splendidly dressed. The Emperor approaches the throne: the Astrologer is to his right.)The Emperor I greet you all, the loved, and true,Gathered here from far and wide: - I see a wise man’s at my side, 4. But where on earth’s the fool? Attendant Right behind your mantle there,He suddenly tumbled on the stair,They dragged away the pile of fat. Dead: or drunk? 4. A Second Attendant At once, and at a wondrous pace,Another came to take his place. Quite extravagantly dressed,Yet troubling, since he’s so grotesque: Guards closed the door in his face, 4. Their halberds held crosswise too –Yet here he comes, the daring fool! Mephistopheles (Kneeling in front of the throne.)What is cursed, and yet is welcomed? What’s desired, yet chased away? What’s always carefully defended? What’s abused: condemned, I say? What do you not dare appeal to? What will all, happily, hear named? What stands on the step before you? What’s banished from here, all the same? The Emperor For once, at least, spare us your babble! This is no time or place for riddles,They’re a matter for these gentlemen. I’ll gladly hear it all again. I fear my old fool’s wandered far in space: 4. Come to my side, here, and take his place.(Mephistopheles places himself on the Emperor’s left.)Murmurs From the Crowd A newer fool – for newer cares –Where’s he from? What help can human wit deliver,Or kindly heart, or willing hand, if fever. Rages wildly through the state, and evil 4. Itself is broodingly preparing evil? Look about, from this height’s extreme,Across the realm: it seems like some bad dream,Where one deformity acts on another,Where lawlessness by law is furthered, 4. And an age of crime is discovered. Here one steals cattle, there, a wife,Cross, cup and candlestick, from the altar,And boasts of it for many a year,His skin’s intact, and so’s his life. Then they take their claims to court. The judge, in pomp, on his high cushion,Meanwhile there grows a furious roar,From swelling tides of revolution. They insist it’s crime and disgrace, 4. With their accomplices beside them,And . The Treasurer In allies, then, who’d put their trust! The subsidies they promised us,Like water pipes are all blocked up. And, Sire, in all your wide estate,Who’s benefited from the take? Wherever you go, there’s some new pup,Who declares his independence. We watch, while they carry on: We’ve given away our rights, and hence,No rights are left for us, not one. Our parties too, however called,Can’t be depended on today: They like to praise, and blame: it’s all. Impartial both their love and hate. They’re resting: they take cover,The Ghibelline, and Guelph. Now, who’ll help his neighbour? Each man just helps himself. The golden doors are fastened tight,Men scrape and scratch and glean, all right, 4. But our coffers still are empty. The Steward What evils, too, I must endure! We try to save each day, I’m sure,But every day sees greater need: 4. So, daily, some new torment’s mine. The cooks, alas, have all they want: Boar, pheasant, hare and venison,Ducks and peacocks, chickens, geese,Payment in kind, and guaranteed,They keep coming all the time, 4. But in the end we’re short of wine. Though cask on cask once filled the cellar,The best of vintages, and names, there,These noble lords can drink forever,And haven’t left a single drop. The council too must have their fill,They grasp their tankards tight until,Under the table, they have to stop. Now I’ll count the cost, you’ll see,The moneylenders won’t spare me, 4. The advances that they give gladly,Will eat the future years, on top. Pigs don’t have time to fatten: instead. Men seize the pillows from your bed,Even the bread from your table’s gone. The Emperor (After reflection, to Mephistopheles.)Fool, do you know anything else that’s wrong? Mephistopheles Me? I see splendour, as I must,Around me, of you and yours! Where strong wills, with wit to understand,Active and various, are all at hand? What, for some evil purpose, could combine,For darkness, then, where such stars shine? Murmurs Here’s a rogue – who understands – 4. He’ll tell lies – as long as he can –I wonder too – what lies behind –And what’s in front? True you can’t just rake it up from the floor,But wisdom knows the mines where one gets more. In mountain veins, foundation walls,Coined and un- coined golden hoards,And ask me, now, who’ll bring it to the light: 4. One gifted with Mind’s power and Nature’s might. The Chancellor Mind and Nature – don’t speak to Christians so. That’s why men burn atheists, below,Such speech is dangerous, all right,Nature is sin, and Mind’s the devil, 4. It harbours within it, Doubt, that evil,Their misshapen hermaphrodite. Not so with us! 4. No, Nature and Mind are heretics! Wizards! Ruining town and land. And you, with brazen impudence still. Invoke them here in this high circle: You’re fostering the corrupted will, 4. Fools are always hand in hand. Mephistopheles By this I recognise a most learned lord! What you can’t feel lies miles abroad,What you can’t grasp, you think, is done with too. What you don’t count on can’t be true, 4. What you can’t weigh won’t weigh, of old,What you don’t coin: that can’t be gold. The Emperor You won’t sort out our faults like that,Will Lenten sermons make men fat? I’m tired of the eternal . Just think how, in those times of consternation,When a human flood drowned land and nation,People were so terrified, everywhere,They hid their treasures, here and there. So it was when mighty Rome held sway, 4. And so it goes on, yesterday and today. Still buried in the earth, why, there it is: The earth is the Emperor’s, so it’s his. The Treasurer For a Fool his aim’s not out of sight: It’s true, that’s an old Imperial right. The Chancellor Satan lays out his gilded nets, for you,These things don’t square with what’s good and true. The Steward Only bring them to court: I’ll welcome the sight,And I’ll gladly accept the thing as not quite right. The Commander in Chief The Fool’s clever, to promise what each of us needs: 4. A soldier will never ask from whence it all proceeds. Mephistopheles If you think I’m cheating you, maybe,Why here’s the man: ask Astrology! He knows each circling hour and house: So ask him: how are the Heavens now?
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Decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily sensible people get angry at colleagues and families, splurge on clothes, buy junk food at the supermarket and can’t resist the dealer’s offer to rustproof their new car. No matter how rational and high- minded you try to be, you can’t make decision after decision without paying a biological price. It’s different from ordinary physical fatigue — you’re not consciously aware of being tired — but you’re low on mental energy. The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts, usually in either of two very different ways. One shortcut is to become reckless: to act impulsively instead of expending the energy to first think through the consequences. What could go wrong?) The other shortcut is the ultimate energy saver: do nothing. Instead of agonizing over decisions, avoid any choice. 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The experiments confirmed the 1. To study the process of ego depletion, researchers concentrated initially on acts involving self- control . They weren’t concerned with routine decision- making, like choosing between chocolate and vanilla, a mental process that they assumed was quite distinct and much less strenuous. Intuitively, the chocolate- vanilla choice didn’t appear to require willpower. But then a postdoctoral fellow, Jean Twenge, started working at Baumeister’s laboratory right after planning her wedding. As Twenge studied the results of the lab’s ego- depletion experiments, she remembered how exhausted she felt the evening she and her fianc. Did they want plain white china or something with a pattern? Which brand of knives? Precisely how many threads per square inch?“By the end, you could have talked me into anything,” Twenge told her new colleagues. The symptoms sounded familiar to them too, and gave them an idea. A nearby department store was holding a going- out- of- business sale, so researchers from the lab went off to fill their car trunks with simple products — not exactly wedding- quality gifts, but sufficiently appealing to interest college students. When they came to the lab, the students were told they would get to keep one item at the end of the experiment, but first they had to make a series of choices. Would they prefer a pen or a candle? A vanilla- scented candle or an almond- scented one? A candle or a T- shirt? A black T- shirt or a red T- shirt? A control group, meanwhile — let’s call them the nondeciders — spent an equally long period contemplating all these same products without having to make any choices. They were asked just to give their opinion of each product and report how often they had used such a product in the last six months. Afterward, all the participants were given one of the classic tests of self- control: holding your hand in ice water for as long as you can. The impulse is to pull your hand out, so self- discipline is needed to keep the hand underwater. The deciders gave up much faster; they lasted 2. Making all those choices had apparently sapped their willpower, and it wasn’t an isolated effect. It was confirmed in other experiments testing students after they went through exercises like choosing courses from the college catalog. For a real- world test of their theory, the lab’s researchers went into that great modern arena of decision making: the suburban mall. They interviewed shoppers about their experiences in the stores that day and then asked them to solve some simple arithmetic problems. The researchers politely asked them to do as many as possible but said they could quit at any time. Sure enough, the shoppers who had already made the most decisions in the stores gave up the quickest on the math problems. When you shop till you drop, your willpower drops, too. Any decision, whether it’s what pants to buy or whether to start a war, can be broken down into what psychologists call the Rubicon model of action phases, in honor of the river that separated Italy from the Roman province of Gaul. When Caesar reached it in 4. B. C., on his way home after conquering the Gauls, he knew that a general returning to Rome was forbidden to take his legions across the river with him, lest it be considered an invasion of Rome. Waiting on the Gaul side of the river, he was in the “predecisional phase” as he contemplated the risks and benefits of starting a civil war. Then he stopped calculating and crossed the Rubicon, reaching the “postdecisional phase,” which Caesar defined much more felicitously: “The die is cast.”The whole process could deplete anyone’s willpower, but which phase of the decision- making process was most fatiguing? To find out, Kathleen Vohs, a former colleague of Baumeister’s now at the University of Minnesota, performed an experiment using the self- service Web site of Dell Computers. One group in the experiment carefully studied the advantages and disadvantages of various features available for a computer — the type of screen, the size of the hard drive, etc. A second group was given a list of predetermined specifications and told to configure a computer by going through the laborious, step- by- step process of locating the specified features among the arrays of options and then clicking on the right ones. The purpose of this was to duplicate everything that happens in the postdecisional phase, when the choice is implemented. The third group had to figure out for themselves which features they wanted on their computers and go through the process of choosing them; they didn’t simply ponder options (like the first group) or implement others’ choices (like the second group). They had to cast the die, and that turned out to be the most fatiguing task of all. When self- control was measured, they were the one who were most depleted, by far. The experiment showed that crossing the Rubicon is more tiring than anything that happens on either bank — more mentally fatiguing than sitting on the Gaul side contemplating your options or marching on Rome once you’ve crossed. As a result, someone without Caesar’s willpower is liable to stay put. To a fatigued judge, denying parole seems like the easier call not only because it preserves the status quo and eliminates the risk of a parolee going on a crime spree but also because it leaves more options open: the judge retains the option of paroling the prisoner at a future date without sacrificing the option of keeping him securely in prison right now. Part of the resistance against making decisions comes from our fear of giving up options. The word “decide” shares an etymological root with “homicide,” the Latin word “caedere,” meaning “to cut down” or “to kill,” and that loss looms especially large when decision fatigue sets in. Once you’re mentally depleted, you become reluctant to make trade- offs, which involve a particularly advanced and taxing form of decision making. In the rest of the animal kingdom, there aren’t a lot of protracted negotiations between predators and prey. To compromise is a complex human ability and therefore one of the first to decline when willpower is depleted. You become what researchers call a cognitive miser, hoarding your energy. If you’re shopping, you’re liable to look at only one dimension, like price: just give me the cheapest. Or you indulge yourself by looking at quality: I want the very best (an especially easy strategy if someone else is paying). |