5.0 There are only two things to be done after jumping from an airplane. Fall, and do whatever seems necessary to deploy the 'chute.
5.1 When I examine this particular life, what do I find? Some successes; several failures; and a great deal of the grey of time passing without incident or being worthy of remark. Little sense of a trajectory apart from the inevitable one that I share with every other man, dog, or even slug on the planet.
5.2 There is a species of unhappiness which consists in comparing imaginary happiness with the varieties actually available to us.
5.3 We are prey to our own deceptions. An imagined happiness invariably involves an imaginary self.
5.4 Odin has two ravens: Thought and Memory. When the winter wolf devours the sun, one departs and then the other.
5.5 In Arcadia, things return; nothing is truly lost. There is another Spring, and then another. The shepherd finds the lamb. And if she is dead, and he is dead, there is another and another. There is redemption in this repetition of things, but it comes at a price. There are individuals and there are shades, here. It is the shades who return. The recurrence takes place on a ghostly landscape. Et in Arcadia, ego...I am death, and the resurrection, and the life, and death...
5.6 This time is answered by another, and these mark the way.
5.7 It is by passing through time that we reach our end.
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Aphorisms & Reflections
Non-FictionA collection of aphorisms and other short writings on a range of metaphysical and aesthetic topics, with observations about the work of particular artists and writers.
