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SUBMITTED: JOURNAL ENTRY OF SATOW, MORITZ [TRANS., GERMAN TO ENGLISH] [CLEARANCE REQ.]
“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world,
than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.” (Shelley)
I must go back. The doctor fled his monster but could not escape it. Did he in truth cherish the memory and conception of
himself as a genius, did he desire to feel again the close pulse of his own brilliance, like a second beating heart?
It is MY world [sic]. They call it “Projekt Traum” but I call it my home, my paradise, my ruin, MINE. I should never have
let another enter.
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven . . .” (Milton)
Please, let me dream again.