[lit-ideas] Omar Spiegel

How bizarre.  Just the other day I was wondering whatever the hell happened to 
Stan der Spiegel and Omar Costa Rica.  And wham-bam, thank you, ma'm, isn't 
that them there in full bloom and still looming large.  Maybe I should hire 
myself out as an imaginer of missing persons.

Welcome back to life you two.

Now where the hell is Erin Holder?  And JL? And Mirembe?  And...and...ach, 
wait, let's see how well this works before getting all worked up.

Mike Geary
Memphis



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Omar Kusturica 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:37 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] The meaning of life


        Only tangentially related to the recent threads, but still:

        http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/suicide/

        There are references to Kant and others, but this quote struck me:
          When a man's circumstances contain a preponderance of things in 
accordance with nature, it is appropriate for him to remain alive; when he 
possesses or sees in prospect a majority of the contrary things, it is 
appropriate for him to depart from life…. Even for the foolish, who are also 
miserable, it is appropriate for them to remain alive if they possess a 
predominance of those things which we pronounce to be in accordance with 
nature. (Cicero, III, 60–61)

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