A day or two later, Keats recorded his impressions in a sonnet that invokes death in its very first line: My spirit is too weak — mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die.
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Leif Ove Andsnes and the Berlin Philharmonic, each at the pinnacle of his or its field, tackle the most difficult and virtuosic of the set, the Second.
In "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (published posthumously), Keats wrote, "My spirit is too weak mortality/Weighs heavily upon me like unwilling sleep,/And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep/Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die/Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky".
You reach the pinnacle of each, the NBA and the Olympics.
Then came Darwin, who declared us descendants of ancient primates, and each living species the pinnacle of evolution in its particular niche.
(Even his name carries the whiff of race: in another context, it could be a campaign by the English Defence League to ensure the fifth month of each year remains a pinnacle of morris-dancing Britishness).
Each is at the pinnacle of their very different pursuits.
