The Separation of Powers

It seems that the greatest health permits the most intense exertion, and the most salvific anodyne produces the greatest convalescence, ending in the return to greatest health. But exertion imperils convalescence if that exertion drains the power of the anodyne. An anodyne is preserved and intensified by exertions that maintain and augment its anodynamic potency. And the working of an anodyne is itself an exertion and thus requires anodyne, convalescence, and renewed health. The convalescence an anodyne produces is inimical to any other exertion, including the exertions that would permit the convalescence, maintenance, and augmentation of the anodyne. Yet those exertions must be made; so they must be made by another, lest anodynamism, convalescence, and health perish utterly.

Stephen R. Donaldson, would you like to comment? I'd ask Aristotle and Nietzsche but, alas, in the end, there is no anodyne for one's own failing health, except the anodyne that reproduces that health in another, as if it were a birthright.

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