Ahhhhh, I see. Trying to make me look like a fool, huh?
bastard
gustavratzenhofer wrote:why didn't you just delete that post, kicky. Now you've wasted a perfectly good spot by putting the word "edit" in it.
The horror.
Ha, I fixed it now. Once again I've unintentionally made your post look foolish. Sorry.
aHA! You got me! Good, now I don't feel so bad.
I think Herman Hesse is the fool.
Or Jeremy in Yellow Submarine. No, wait, he's a Nowhere Man. Damn it.
Herman Hesse's hill has a ha-foolish high-stepping wolf.
You didn't like Magister Ludi, patiodog?
Hess - Herman Hesse - he wrote Siddartha among other novels.
Ne'er heard of it. I'm just playing with haha sounds, gus. (Liked Steppenwolf and Cat and Mouse all right, years ago....)
Of course, Katz und Maus is Gunter Grass, so that's a really stupid thing to say...
Magister Ludi, aka The Glass Bead Game. One of Hesse's more enduring novels.
Hesse, get it right, Hesse!!!
She snaps, what is Wrong with you!
Bruce Milligan wrote:As I work to help position Redgate as a leader in the programming of content for the World Wide Web, I've spent a good deal of time thinking about the nature of the Web -- a realm of pure intellect, minds interacting with machines, constructs of information designed to facilitate the sometimes-ordered, sometimes-random and often serendipitous roamings of human inquisitiveness... But more than anything, this process of information publishing and linking on the Web reminds me a lot of the Glass Bead Game that Hermann Hesse wrote about in his 1943 novel Das Glasperlenspiel (translated "The Glass Bead Game", subtitled "Magister Ludi"...)
I don't know who the hell Bruce Milligan is, but I thought I'd pass this along.
claps hands laughing. I've never read Hesse. I heard too much about it...
"The Myth of Sisyphus", by Camus looks very interesting. I feel like that Sisyphus guy a lot of the time lately.
"Siddharthta" is a good book to read, when you feel lost -
so is "The Alchemist" (Paulo Coelho).
Sisyphus? Didn't the English call that "the French disease," the French "the Italian disease," and the Appalachians "Ma's itch"?
Kicky, don't let anyone sugar you out of your existential doldrums. They are a sign of creeping philosophical/religious maturity (I'm not talking about theistic fundamentalism). If I were you--and I was very much like you at one time--I would not try to avoid the lost feeling. I would focus on it, examine it, feed off of it. Camus would be a good guide. It is called Dukkha in Buddhism, the fundamental disattisfaction we have with our ego-centric lives, no matter how "good" things are going. Listen to Adrian and LittleK, but most importantly to yourself.
Quote:Sisyphus is the son of Aeolus (the king of Thessaly) and Enarete, and founder of Corinth. He instituted, among others, the Isthmian Games. According to tradition he was sly and evil and used to way-lay travelers and murder them. He betrayed the secrets of the gods and chained the god of death, Thanatos, so the deceased could not reach the underworld. Hades himself intervened and Sisyphus was severely punished.
In the realm of the dead, he is forced to roll a block of stone against a steep hill, which tumbles back down when he reaches the top. Then the whole process starts again, lasting all eternity. His punishment was depicted on many Greek vases. He is represented as a naked man, or wearing a fur over his shoulders, pushing a boulder.
According to some sources, Sisyphus was the father of Odysseus by Anticlea, before she married Laertus. They also mention Theseus as the hero who freed the country of Sisyphus.
Well, you're not evil and murderous (I don't think). But, even so, perhaps you need a champion to kill of sisyphus - your own Theseus.
