[lit-ideas] Re: On Finding a Friend Dead
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:54:07 +0900
If there's nothing worse than such a long night
Why do we welcome each night's sleep?
And, it seems, can't live without it?
Faithless creatures that we are,
we see this as no exit, the end.
But wouldn't it be wild to wake in some other tribe's afterlife,
a happy hunting ground,
a Chinese purgatory,
a harem in which the men, transformed,
become troupes of fifty virgins,
that would be a change.
John
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Oi! "Carry on" is *my* line.
>
> Andyou're welcome to it for as long as necessary.
>
> I don't know if this is right, given that your writing is so spot on, but
> maybe there's succor in call and response? A conversation of sorts?
>
> i'm annoyed by the fact that people die
> some animals o.k.
> go with it
> i kill a few myself from time to time
> crab and ants
> and eat them
> the crab
> never tried ants
> so that's the ethical line crossed right there
> but then there's pets
> who can get you in the guts without a hint of trying
> tearing
> and it's worse with people
> i remember reading a sartre story about some group of hostages the germans
> had taken and they're all going to be shot in the morning and i'm thinking
> crikey
> that man is right
> there's nothing worse than such a long night
> but we all know that this one night comes to us all eventually
> that's the bit i hate
> the rub
> the core of this
> everyone dies
> and where's your bloody universal justice now
> gone all existential
> and how
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
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