Is that quote by Cormac McCarthy? One of his novels? On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:55 PM Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> """ > So, Jon, and all of you other ex-perts, Is it the case, or not? I can see > that it might be the case for those of you who, unlike me, MIGHT become > massively important to others later on. But is it, or is it not, the case > for we ordinary mortals. > """ > > What I am making, perhaps too many, efforts to express is that gentlemen's > agreements are agreements about what isn't simply given. They are pacts to > act as if something were simply given, all the while acknowledging that if > these touchstones were given, there would be no need to mention it. > > All men are mortal, but as McCarthy put it: > > *So. Here are the dead fathers. Their spirit is entombed in the stone.* > *It lies upon the land with the same weight and the same ubiquity. For* > *whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the* > *common destiny of creatures and he will subside back into the primal* > *mud with scarcely a cry. But who builds in stone seeks to alter the* > *structure of the universe...* > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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