Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.
When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come. . . the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.
Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed.
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.