<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
There are easier and more<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
straightforward ways to commit suicide as a species.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah yes, but would any of them be as fun? Your comments, Eugen, put me in mind of a quote by George Steiner.</div><div><br></div><div>
"<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">We cannot turn back. We cannot choose the dreams of unknowing. We shall, I expect, open the last door in the castle, even if it leads, perhaps </span><i style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">because</i><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"> it leads, on to realities which are beyond the reach of human comprehension and control. And we shall do so with that desolate clairvoyance, so marvelously rendered in Bartok's</span></font></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"> music, because opening doors is the tragic merit of our identity."</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><br></span></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">Cheery thought for the day.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">Darren</span></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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