James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time p. 105 or so . . .

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.  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.  It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.  One is responsible to life:  It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness 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  

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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. “

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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 

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