mcandreb wrote:
Hi Keith,
Your worrying about which part of the world will be at the top of the
heap for the next while and LORD it over the rest of us (Hail
Britainnia) called to my mind an expression from my childhood: "King
Shit of Turd Island".
[snip]
This notion is given more respectable wording and perhaps more
terrifying imagery by a story Elias Canetti tells in his
book (which I highly recommend:) _Crowds and Power_.
Canetti tells the story of an India Indian prince who
evicted all the inhabitants of a certain city (in all fairness,
he bought them out), so that he could become immortal, because
then there would be nobody left to witness his death and
outlive him. The atheist Jean-Paul Sartre described
this kind of true but kind of disappointing immortality:
We die only for others (because no person can experience
not-experiencing).
I also seem to recall a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci from the
Windsor Castle collection which I have not been able to
track down again:
At the top of the drawing is a massive air-burst, like
a nuclear weapon.
Empty space in the middle.
At the bottom of the picture is a huge mound of corpses.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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