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Beautiful and wonderful and sad and beautiful again. Highly recommended read. > “The fallacy of dividing people into sane and insane lies in the assumption tha
by erulabs 6y ago
Beautiful and wonderful and sad and beautiful again. Highly recommended read.
> “The fallacy of dividing people into sane and insane lies in the assumption that we really do touch other lives... Hence I would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity and pursues his essential purposes calmly”
Tragic isolation indeed. The story of Savage, the African American sculptor, rings with as much tragic isolation as Joe’s. The author and the reader share the emotion, which is probably the measure of success in any writing.
It’s somewhere around this age of mine when one realizes one will be forgotten - and quickly. A few database columns here or there and then what? Subsumed by billions of the equally forgotten. So, I pursue my essential purpose; is there anything else?
- leafmeal 6y agoI pray database columns aren't my essential purpose.
- ebullientocelot 6y agoI wouldn't normally click into an article with this title/source but your comment led me to do so on a whim. I don't often finish reading long-form and think "that was a great way to spend 30 minutes" but this time I did. Thank you!
- greatquux 6y agoI had a case of insomnia last night that was only cured when I finally reached the end of this great article. :)