perspective detective

[Murthy Yenamandra]

At the risk of following up my own post and polluting what appears to be
an ideal contribution to pynchon-l, this was my intended message that
was saved instead as file :wq. Was this a sign that should be read as
indicating that I am much better off posting to my own hard drive
instead of to the general public? You be the judge. This version is less
brief, but hopefully no less obscure.

David Morris complains:
> That Epicetus quote sounds absurd...

So is life, so may be we'll reformulate it as:

    If you try to avoid absurdity in life,
    you're bound to be confused and miserable, sooner or later.

Here is a relevant passage that appeared on the list a while ago:

"It is exactly the no-way-out situation in which the human being finds
itself - that fundamental and unbridgeable inner cleavage of that being
which is conscious of itself - that is said to be the way....[Zen Master
Shin'ichi - tmc] Hisamatsu put this into a more general form: 'Doshitemo
ikanakereba do suru ka?': 'Nothing will do. What do you do?' He called
this the 'fundamental koan' - i.e., the koan that is the common
denominator of the thousands of extant koans."

murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra                  mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Dept of Computer Science           University of Minnesota
"I strive to be brief, but I become obscure." - Horace