Plictisitor şi ideal

“…The terms ’spleen’ and ‘ideal’ were taken from nineteenth century symbolist ideas. Spleen – the ill natured and malevolent aspects of human nature such as envy, ill temper, spite and intolerance – was seen as inextricably linked to the notion of the ideal. On one hand it tended to rob the ideal of its potentiality to exist; on the other hand it would shape and influence the ideal’s very nature. Correspondingly, our songs were about the truth and illusion; conditioning and freedom; doubt and faith; and beneath all these couplings, the quest for perfection. The attainment of the ideal…”

Dead Can Dance – De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)