First we feel. Then we fall. Finnegan's Wake

“Justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt.” Republic

I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all—Depth beyond depth was revealed to me—the Byss and the Abyss. I saw, as one might see the transit of Venus—or even the Lord Mayor's Show, a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly how it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable: and how the one step involved all the others. It was like politics. But it was after dinner and I let it go! Never Give In!

“I am caught in a tide of sorrow and love which is carrying me away from writing.” (17 July 1920) Letters To Milena