[lit-ideas] The sublime and the ...
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- Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 15:41:08 +0200
On 3. May 2021, at 20:44, David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I read this piece today:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/world/europe/gareth-wild-parking-bromley-sainsbury.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-decay-decay-02&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=3641831&impression_id=06e03eb6-ac2c-11eb-8f03-2b95f346ef4c&index=6&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1®ion=footer&req_id=186964716&surface=most-popular-story&variant=1_bandit-all-surfaces-decay-decay-02
I cannot help but place in juxtaposition the achievement outlined in the
article above with the following words, which were offered to us in today's
'Writer's Almanac':
"Two months before he died [Horace Mann (1796-1859)] said in a speech to the
graduating class, 'I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting
words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.'"
https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/twa-the-writers-almanac-for-may-4-2021/
Chris Bruce,
meditating on the 'small victories' in our lives, along with
Iris Murdoch's explorations of the idea that perhaps the best
we can ever manage in life is 'a fairly honourable defeat', in
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