<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp948faea2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time p. 105 or so . . .</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Life
is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets,
and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.<span> </span>Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the
human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will
imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples,
mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death,
which is the only fact we have.<span> </span>It seems
to me that one ought to rejoice in the <i>fact</i>
of death—ought to decide, indeed, to <i>earn</i>
one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.<span> </span>One is responsible to life:<span> </span>It is the small beacon in that terrifying
darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.<span> </span>One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible,
for the sake of those who are coming after us.<span>
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On Saturday, June 20, 2020, 01:19:20 PM MST, Richard Alton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp74660578yiv6124665840"><div>Yes, Herman..am half way through it. Amazing book-“It was essential that we should die a death of our own and not the death that the SS had forced on us. We beat responsibility for this task as we beat responsibility for the task of life. “<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp74660578yiv6124665840yqt4573709552" id="ydp74660578yiv6124665840yqtfd50691"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 20, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Herman Greene via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div><div class="ydp74660578yiv6124665840yqt4573709552" id="ydp74660578yiv6124665840yqtfd04122"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Three lectures of Viktor Frankle were published this March. The book is <i>Saying Yes to Life in Spite of Everything.</i> I highly recommend it.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Herman <br clear="all"><div><br clear="none"></div>-- <br clear="none"><div class="ydp74660578yiv6124665840gmail_signature" dir="ltr">__________________________________________________<div>Herman F. Greene</div><div>2516 Winningham Road</div><div>Chapel Hill, NC 27516</div><div>919-942-4358 (ph & fax)</div><div><a shape="rect" href="mailto:hfgreenenc@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hfgreenenc@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div>
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