A painful, but profitable, weekend.
My insides began falling apart again after a whole day's blessed and almost complete "remission" (the first in five weeks?). The nausea became such that I slept away a whole chunk of the afternoon, something I can rarely do even should I want to.
And then there was something else; I'm not going into details, but it inspired me to run a search for "mankind cannot bear too much reality..."
I kick myself! This South African contributor to a 1998 philosophy of mind forum is entitled to a misquote for his subject matter revisiting Freud, but I should know better.
The silver lining with the cloud came in the shape of Boston University's remarkable Paideia Project, with its publication of more than online 900 papers and articles arising from the last World Congress of Philosophy. The next takes place in Istanbul in August.
As for the correct quote, somebody who has read and admired T.S. Eliot as much as I do should have realised straight away that it was from 'Burnt Norton', first of the 'Four Quartets'.
Which led me through another astounding gateway at Literature Classics to the whole Classics Network, "committed to promoting the appreciation of classic works of literature, philosophy, history and politics."
After inspection, that's certainly on my "blogroll", where (in some browsers only) a mouse roll-over the entries should now give you brief details about each one.
The blogroll has seen a major overhaul in the past couple of days, but I've retained one or two currently quiet places in the hope that their authors revive them.
As for the quote, which reminds me that just one "desert island poet" (Ted Hughes) can't be enough for me to survive, Eliot was a touch more "politically correct", even getting on for 70 years ago, than I'd remembered. It was "human kind":
"Go, go, go, said the bird : human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what always has been
Point to one end, which is always present."
On the Net, the whole poem, with other notable things, is at a place called spack, run by Earl Cahill, now a senior engineer behind the scenes at About.
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