"'History,' said Joyce's Dedalus, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake'. But we do not awake. Though we constantly make a heroic attempt to rise to a level ethically superior to nature, our own nature, again and again we suffer a fall- brought low by some outburst of madness because of the limiting defects inherent in our species" (Barker xv).
This is an intriguing quote because of how in-depth it is in the world we live in today. Once we see that "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake" is in here, you can tell that something is going down. The author of the quote is literally saying that they wish they could take back somethings, or maybe even do more things than they had. The next part of the quote is saying that we all make heroic attempts that don't seem possible to the standards of natures' power, but very few of them come to be something of heroic measure. She then goes on to say that "again and again we suffer a fall", meaning we always have a big time low, which is called the abyss, and its different for everyone. This is brought on by the human race always trying to bring down each other, so we ourselves don't feel bad.
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