[lit-ideas] Re: Mike and Schopenhauer
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:29:41 -0400
Pretty much, be in the world but not of it.
> [Original Message]
> From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/23/2006 9:54:18 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Mike and Schopenhauer
>
> On 5/23/06, Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Optimism is a very very local
> > condition. Born of denial I think.
> >
>
> Not always born of denial, I think. As Ruth and I walk past our
> guerilla garden this morning, we see all sorts of things to cheer us
> up, the rose in full bloom, the blue sage surging, the flourishing
> plumbago we transplanted this weekend. I remark once again online to
> someone depressed with the state of American politics that I graduated
> from a legally segregated high school, an institution now fully
> integrated, and my mother who went to nursing school never had the
> opportunity to do what my daughter has done, become a Navy pilot.
> Arriving at my office I open an envelope that tells me that the
> offshore hedge fund I just cashed in tripled in value in the last
> decade.
>
> I am not Candide. I don't believe that this is the best of all
> possible worlds. How could it be with all the ghastly things that go
> on. Still, there are bits of progress to be noted, joys to be tasted
> here and there. I smile and look forward to another day.
>
> --
> John McCreery
> The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
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