Re: "*Leave* something beautiful"
Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:06:55 -0700 (PDT)
--- craig king <ck31@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
> yes hello,
>
> been reading simone weil. something in there (excuse
> my inconsistencies but
> i've just returned from the pub) about desiring and
> attaining. she says (I
> think): the incessant desiring of a thing creates a
> void. that void is the
> consequence of attachment, the self-perpetuating
> desire towards things with
> little value in themselves other than the fact that
> they are desired. we may
> desire god, or connection with god, or at least to
> minimise the distance.
> but there's no attainment. so why desire when
> there's no chance of
> attainment
>
> desire, attainment.
> or lack of.
> and what i desire now is bed.
> and i now about to attain it.
>
> nighty night.
>
> craig
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I sometimes think that if Simone Weil had spent more
time listening to Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, etc.
she might have been a happier person, or at the very
least felt like ...
Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles - Bob Dylan
Just my two cents.
- Ed
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