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onefamiliarface

The Good Precipice

Dec 09, 2009 01:55

Holy crap! It is wonder. It is amazement that I am missing. I have become too pragmatic, too practical, too serious. I re-learned it a little late this year, but I want to feel genuinely thankful for the little things again. It has been a while ( Read more... )

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zigmazag18 December 9 2009, 07:30:31 UTC

Pocket should spend more time around children. Or Zen Buddhists. Maybe a few cosmologists. That wonder and appreciation is only part naivete, but that isn't bad at all. All happiness in life perhaps requires a kind of self-delusion (or more accurately, self-suspension-of-belief) regarding mortality. The more wonderful life is, the sadder mortality becomes, and regardless of wonderfulness, mortality (just like consciousness) is always going to be absolutely absurd. It's an exercise which only gets darker the more it's thought through. In that context, a desire for moral imperative (however ambiguous and ill-directed) takes precedence over happiness ( ... )

onefamiliarface December 10 2009, 15:53:01 UTC

Hmm... Perhaps I didn't put what I meant correctly ( ... )

stinkomandx December 11 2009, 15:41:46 UTC

Neil Gaiman books. Only read Neil Gaiman books (by which I mean Sandman, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Fragile Things, Smoke and Mirrors)

onefamiliarface December 12 2009, 05:49:19 UTC

I've read them all but Fragile Things! (I even tacked on Stardust.)

I think Chabon does a pretty good job of holding the wondermentastics as well.

stinkomandx December 14 2009, 20:18:25 UTC

I LOVED Stardust. That man can spin a yarn.