James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time p. 105 or so . . . Lifeis 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. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, thehuman trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, willimprison 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. It seemsto me that one ought to rejoice in the factof death—ought to decide, indeed, to earnone’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifyingdarkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible,for the sake of those who are coming after us. Jim Wiegel “That which consumes me is not man, nor the earth, nor the heavens, but the flame which consumes man, earth, and sky." Nikos Kazantzakis 401 North Beverly Way,Tolleson, Arizona 85353 623-363-3277 jfwiegel@yahoo.com www.partnersinparticipation.com On Saturday, June 20, 2020, 01:19:20 PM MST, Richard Alton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: 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. “ Sent from my iPhone On Jun 20, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Herman Greene via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: Three lectures of Viktor Frankle were published this March. The book is Saying Yes to Life in Spite of Everything. I highly recommend it. Herman -- __________________________________________________Herman F. Greene2516 Winningham RoadChapel Hill, NC 27516919-942-4358 (ph & fax)hfgreenenc@gmail.com_______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net