JL, as Emerson says: Foolish consistency, etc. I am not sorry that I am alive, regardless of the consequences. <smile>
When I felt so ill the other evening, I finally managed to do some meditating in my own way. At-one-ment, you might say.
Yes, I guess that at such times it's easier to be focused. But not with the flu.
Jl, Voltaire speaks for many, but I think of all that has gone before and I hear the chant of drums and war, but the poet says in so many ways the philosophy of endless days:
When I was one-and-twenty..."
by A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
'Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.'
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
'The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.'
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
Often it takes us a lifetime to learn what Housman learned in one single year.
Freely, but sincerely, give your heart away;
if it is abused you can, albeit painfully, take it back.
Ok, JL. "With one hand, I undo it all....." Hester's response to Arthur in the forest when she ripped off the scarlet letter. Pearl, however, had a tantrum and demanded that she put it back on.
Good morning to the true folks, here.
my favourite philosophically astute rejoinder is "accept Julian, accept" from Albee's "Tiny Alice".
[meaning there is no point in railling against the pervading culture; one must accept its pervasion (or even its perversion), and proceed from there.]
Hey, Bo. Welcome back. I'm forever getting Tiny Alice confused with A Doll's House. Need to check that out.
your local library is waiting;
[but don't check 'out', Letty; just check up!]
My word, Bo. You're as arcane as Albee.
Bo has never been 'Our Cain', just a good brother.
