[lit-ideas] Re: FW: RE: Re: Just read a novel
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:17:21 -0400
Still explains who but not why. If one is going to press that off button
anyway ...
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/20/2006 1:12:26 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FW: RE: Re: Just read a novel
>
> Who cares?
>
> Eric: If you don't, there's nobody to do it for you.
>
> Steve: That's a very cynical reply, I believe ...
>
>
> Eric: "Cynical" implies that the putative cynic believes the
> worst human motives always prevail, and so caps her belief
> with a sneer or smirk. That's not my intention at all.
>
> Try this substitute. Accept the fact that you are dying,
> probably a lot sooner than you expect, and that this is your
> time to care about things. You won't have another chance to
> care about things except in this brief interlude between the
> maternity ward and the crypt.
>
> If you still can't bring yourself to care about things,
> recognize that you can end your life any time you choose.
> You're free to press the "off button" any time you want, and
> that gives you not only personal freedom and power, but also
> a certain amount of invulnerability. Nothing can get quite
> so bad that you can't end it by pressing "off," but it's up
> to you. Yet if you decide not to shut it off, your life is
> your responsibility, and it's up to you to care for it.
>
>
> For another take on this, see Walker Percy's _Lost in the
> Cosmos: the last self-help book_, in the chapter called "Why
> Suicide is the Only Cure for Depression."
>
>
>
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