Wheel Turning Around And Around

Steely Dan: Do It Again

Steely Dan: Do It Again...5/20/74

You will learn it,
said Vasudeva, but not from me.
The river has taught me to listen.
You will learn from it too.
The river knows everything.
One can learn everything from it.
You have already learned from the river
that it is good to strive downwards,
to sink, to seek the depths.
...Was it not a comedy,
a strange and stupid thing,
this repetition, this course of events
in a fateful circle?
The river laughed.
Yes, that was how it was.
Everything that was not suffered
to the end and finally concluded, recurred,
and the same sorrows were undergone.
--Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha