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Monday, May 16, 2005

so what

J Conrad suggests that what makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal kingdom under the conditions of this earth is very well_but soon as you know of your slavery, the pain, the anger, the stife...the tragedy begins.
_ consciousness is a disease (Unamuno)
_ knowledge is the enemy of life (Mann)
_ man can only live happily if he doesn't know it well (Schopenhauer)
_ happiness is to know nothing (Chinese proverb)
_ seek not, for thou shalt not find it, what my end,
what thein shall be;
be thou wise; fill up the wine-cup; shortening,
since thy time is brief,
hopes that reach into the future (Horace)
_ leave the mystery, chant and wine
no one has solved it aided by reason and logic (Hafez)
_ finding out the secret of rose is not our job
our business is perhaps
wandering after serenades of truth
amidst lotus flower and century (Sepehri)

so what?!

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