- Fri May 31, 2024 10:10 am
#137497
In some of his 8,241,025 postings over his 78 years on the World Wide Interwebs, Mr Forbes has touched on the meaning of life.
Today, in the chilly dawn, after doing his first set of morning situps and barbells, Mr Forbes was reading Santayana's lecture at Oxford in 1923:
"Poets and philosophers sometimes talk as if life were an entertainment, a feast of ordered sensations.
But the poets, if not the philosophers, know too well in their hearts that life is no such thing.
It is a predicament.
We are caught in it; it is something compulsory, urgent, dangerous, and tempting.
We are surrounded by enormous, mysterious, only half-friendly forces."
Today, in the chilly dawn, after doing his first set of morning situps and barbells, Mr Forbes was reading Santayana's lecture at Oxford in 1923:
"Poets and philosophers sometimes talk as if life were an entertainment, a feast of ordered sensations.
But the poets, if not the philosophers, know too well in their hearts that life is no such thing.
It is a predicament.
We are caught in it; it is something compulsory, urgent, dangerous, and tempting.
We are surrounded by enormous, mysterious, only half-friendly forces."
- By johnforbes