Forgiveness

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have to brag that I actually finished "In Search of Lost Time" this year.
>  A friend and I did a mutual support reading going at the rate of a book a
> month from May to December.   I'm so surprised.  (lol)
>
> Love didn't save Marcel because no matter how hard he tried to hang on to
> her,  it trapped him.
>
> Bekah
>

Congrats, Bekah.  No mean accomplishment.

Proust's narrator seemed to think the greatest happiness consisted in
directly experiencing the past through unconscious memory. Whenever
that happened he was ecstatic.

But why all GOOD memories.  I have unconscious memories now and then
that make me physically shudder. If I were Hunter Thompson I'd fire
any weapon at my disposal at them.

Fortunately there are whole weeks when this doesn't happen.

P.



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> On Dec 23, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
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