Le 25 juin 05, à 13:03, Eric Yost a écrit :
"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?
Best, Mike
Michael Chase (goya@xxxxxxxxxxx) CNRS UPR 76 7, rue Guy Moquet Villejuif 94801 France
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