Two quotations: “Death confronts humanity as an incomprehensible, inexplicable, and unassailable reality.” and WH Auden’s line from “For The Time Being” -
“We who must die demand a miracle.
How could the Eternal do a temporal act,
The Infinite become a finite fact?
Nothing can save us that is possible:
We who must die demand a miracle.”
I remember once, at HHS, hearing two girls at lunch saying, “I hate English literature. All we talk about is death, death, death.”
"The present does not just flutter by but, rather, is vivified by the facticity of our existence." Hey there, I really appreciated the sketch of Heidegger on temporality. The last section of Ricoeur's The Rule of Metaphor / LA VIE DU METAPHOR was for me one of the best guides for Heidegger on this. The "vivify" of your sketch is the "life" of metaphor...
Two quotations: “Death confronts humanity as an incomprehensible, inexplicable, and unassailable reality.” and WH Auden’s line from “For The Time Being” -
“We who must die demand a miracle.
How could the Eternal do a temporal act,
The Infinite become a finite fact?
Nothing can save us that is possible:
We who must die demand a miracle.”
I remember once, at HHS, hearing two girls at lunch saying, “I hate English literature. All we talk about is death, death, death.”
I wanted to answer, well yes!!
"The present does not just flutter by but, rather, is vivified by the facticity of our existence." Hey there, I really appreciated the sketch of Heidegger on temporality. The last section of Ricoeur's The Rule of Metaphor / LA VIE DU METAPHOR was for me one of the best guides for Heidegger on this. The "vivify" of your sketch is the "life" of metaphor...
Love the Lao Tzu quote. Great discussion about time. Not crazy about Morby's style - probably need to listen to more than one song.