| date: | 2009 — 2011 |
| preliminary remark: | A selection of my Facebook posts and personal notes about miscellaneous topics. |
[Linda] needs to upgrade her brain in order to cope with the wrestling intensity of her intellectual life. Does anyone have additional cerebral RAM for rent that can allow an old and dull brain to recall more readily every talk given at a musicology symposium and a philosophy conference during two consecutive weekends?
I have wasted a disproportionate amount of my youth on waiting for something to happen, on hoping that if I sit here long enough, with poise, composure and patience, someone of an ingenious mind will come to resolve everything in the end. Now despite the disproportionate waste in time and energy incidental to waiting for six thousand varieties of an apocalyptic prediction, I am still waiting for all things to mend.
[Linda] believes not in anything that cannot be subsumed under a general rational principle by the faculty of reason.
The chief human values are freedom of choice and individual dignity.
We live in a shining moment of instantaneous miracle out of a state of non-existence from which we had emerged, as mere conglomerations of start dust so strangely and so suddenly at a specific instant, to shortly retreat at another specific instant into the very same state of non-existence without a guaranteed return. In this transient passage from here to there, now to then, the proper object of man’s attention must not be how long the collision of minds lasts, but rather, whether our brief encounter sparkles in any blazing light of intellectual insight.
At no time have I denied I am mentally, physically, intellectually a coward; yet oddly enough, by acknowledging my mental, physical and intellectual cowardice, I find myself immensely brave.
10 May 2009
I don’t know what I insist on seeking for — perhaps a dream that cannot be fulfilled.
LINDA’S ARTWORLD 