Kvasir

Excerpt from O Tempora! O Mores!

"I’ve been a thinking, whether it were best

To take things seriously or all in jest;

Whether with grim Heraclitus of yore

To weep, as he did, till his eyes were sore,

Or rather laugh with him, that ***** Philosopher, 

Democritus of Thrace, who used to toss over

The page of life and grin at the dog-ears,

As though he’d say, “Why who the devil cares?”

- Edgar Allen Poe