[lit-ideas] "Why the Bad Must Always Attack the Good"
- From: Eric Yost <Mr.Eric.Yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:03:18 -0400
"God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
Cain slew Abel and Seth knew not why
For if the children of Israel were supposed
to multiply
Then why must any of the children die?
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Philo Judaeus, the great Alexandrian syncretist, wrote a fine piece on
this called, if I remember correctly, "Why the Bad Must Always Attack
the Good."
Cain gives God a poor offering and Abel doesn't so Cain must attack him.
Archimedes doesn't want to stop thinking about geometry so the
drunken Roman soldier kills him. Mozart activates Salieri.
The universe seems configured so that if you create something
beautiful, something arises to disfigure it. If you create a beautiful
garden with a fountain and rose arbors, some cretin has to buy a parcel
of land next to it and use it to store rusting car bodies.
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Yes, but why? Precisely
because it was a paradise. The existence of the paradise pulled the
parking lot into existence.
Anyone else notice this phenomena at work in the universe?
Eric
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