Forgiveness

[Paul Mackin]

I might have added that Proust also had an interesting take on love,
although his narrator was principally concerned with love as the
desire to possess.

You couldn't let the love object know your true feelings or else
they'd start taking you foregranted.


More or less.



On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Basically, I was thinking of ultimates. After all is said and done-
>>> what's left? What really matters? It's glaringly obvious. No one
>>> gets saved, except for another chance to die. Only one way
>>> affords salvation and it's not given, it's giving- the progressiven
>>> someone else. Dope, booze, weed, acid, religion, eating, sex,
>>> making a killing in the market, bludgeoning defenseless video
>>> characters to oblivion, shooting game if that's your ticket- are
>>> all well worn paths to satisfaction, fleeting as it may be, but
>>> nothing beats loving. Ultimately, it's the only way out of an
>>> otherwise meaniingless life, isn't it?
>>>
>>
>> Love makes the world go 'round!
>>
>
> Freud saw practical problems in loving thy enemy--a dangerous thing to
> do sometimes (I think he said in Civilization and its Discontents).
>
> Lenin on the other hand is supposed to have said on his death bed that
> he wished he had had ten St. Fransises.
>
> Love is a puzzle.
>
> P.
>