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November 13, 2005
Lost in the Cosmos
And even to consider which is the more absurd state of affairs, the manifest absurdity of your predicament:lost in the Cosmos and no news of how you got into such a fix or how to get out--or the even more preposterous eventuality that news did come from the God of the Cosmos, who took pity on your ridiculous plight and entered the space and time of your insignificant planet to tell you something.
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning:
The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.
The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
- Walker Percy
Posted by houch at November 13, 2005 05:20 AM
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go russell byers!:0) hope this finds you well houch. really liked this entry and made me think of a newsletter I read at overtherhine which you can find here http://overtherhine.com/story/newsarchive/news2000.html It's the March 21, 2000 letter. Check it out. Have a great day
david
Posted by: david sali at November 18, 2005 01:54 PM