Aesthetics and Ethics, [Fwd: Re: BHA: Agency chez Bhaskar]

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>>An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
>>
>>... A lonely impulse of delight
>>Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
>>I balanced all, brought all to mind,
>>The years to come seemed waste of breath,
>>A waste of breath the years behind
>>In balance with this life, this death.
>
>One commits suicide (and first kills as many as possible of those one
>has nothing against) just to give drama to one's life.

Or as novelist Walker Percy put it, war is "better than Monday morning."

Carl

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