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[xsingformex]

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat, and we would die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

- George Eliot

I'm curious as to what your interpretation of this quote is.

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[polkadotsky]

i'm curious as to yours.

[xsingformex]

I had to interpret this and present it to my speech class. I just wanted to get some other opinions, because I think everyones is different and I'm interested.

My favorite so far is my sisters. "It means that anything impossible can happen... cause like... if you tried to hear a squirrels heart beat, it would bite you."

My interpretation in short is that ignorance is bliss. If we could hear, see, and feel all the tragedy that happens in the world every day, it would be too overwhelming for any one person to bare.

[polkadotsky]

i took it as the meaning of life is the little things that make it up and there is no big plan that we need to understand. but that nobody can/will accept this. i think he's telling everyone to get over themselves.