[lit-ideas] Re: The Perfect Emersonian
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 18:59:11 -0800
On Jan 16, 2016, at 2:13 PM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Forget the references to dead Greeks and Englishmen (also German space
cadets). Geary has found his way to one of the central insights of Buddhism
but has not quite reached enlightenment. To cling is to suffer. Let go. Let
go.
Or, as we say in English, “forget.”
Which was the essence of what I wanted to say when I set out to write a history
of forgetting.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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