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Besides, history viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.
But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.
“Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
“Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.”
It was about the unthinking hubris of a race which dared to murder its homeworld through sheer carelessness and then carried that dangerous arrogance to the stars, only to meet the wrath of a god which humanity had helped to sire.
Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie.
IF OUR SOCIETY ever opted for Orwell’s Big Brother approach, the instrument of choice for oppression would have to be the credit wake.
“Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.”
‘Can God play a significant game with his own creature? Can any creator, even a limited one, play a significant game with his own creature?’
empathy surgeon,
