[lit-ideas] Re: The Unimaginable
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:37:31 -0600
Eric Yost wrote:
. . . .The world is so large, so unimaginably complex, so completely
out of personal control. I don't even understand my apartment
building, let alone a scale where cities are reduced to computer chips
with moss growing around them.
Politics has no role in such a scale. Imagination has no role in such
a scale. Sympathy cannot penetrate an order of existence where one
could cup a small city in a hand pressed against a window. Power is a
drunken dream. All thoughts are humbling and the only judgment is awe.
Or Calvin's response:
"Yes, we're just tiny specks on a planet particle, hurling through
the infinite blackness. . . . Let's go in and turn on all the lights."
(May 28, 1988 Calvin and Hobbes.)
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John Wager johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx
Forest Park, IL, USA
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