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<DIV>Been reading Miller's wonderful "The Colossus of Maroussi" and came across
this nice little passage, which I thought was reflective of the current mood:
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<DIV>"<EM>Madame, </EM>there are always two paths to take: one back towards the
comfort and security of death, the other forward to nowhere. You would like to
fall back amongst your quaint tomb-stones and familiar cemetery walls. Fall
back, then, fall deep and fathomless into the ocean of annihilation. Fall back
into that bloody torpor which permits idiots to be crowned as kings. Fall back
and writhe in torment with the evolutionary worms. I am going on, on past the
last black and white squares. The game is played out, the figures have melted
away, the lines are frazzled, the board is mildewed. Everything has become
barbarous again." </DIV>
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<DIV>Has it not? </DIV>
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<DIV>DP</DIV>
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