Life, The Universe, And Everything In Between

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. W. Somerset Maugham Ralph Waldo Emerson - "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Re-reading from Chapter 18, Dante.  Dante's Inferno (the game gave me quite a bit of information) The Magic Mountain Schweik Kafka - done Joseph K Faulkner Ulysses- tried; Latin got in the way.  30 Rock - seen some; it's good.  Gustav Aschenbach - Death in Venice - Mann The ubiquitous Indian restaurant Saroyan Camus - lots to go.  Bible, Freud - usual suspects King Lear Chapter 19 Loads of f Chapter 20 The chaplain's plight, brilliantly described, and I opine that Mr Heller was a very verbose writer, with an almost stream-of-consciousness style, and had a very expansive vocabulary. 

ISBN 9780001000520 Rupa Pubs., ed. Leo Hamalian and Edmond L Volpe Copyright The Noonday Press 1959 The ones I found impressive were: Selma Lagerlof (The Outlaws) Henrik Pontoppidan (A Fisher Nest) [especially for its depiction of barbaric customs belonging to antiquity, in its opening pages] W B Yeats (The Crucifixion of the Outcast) Wladyslaw Reymont (Death) [the squabbling amongst relatives for the even meagre material possessions of those at final rest makes for grimacing reading] G B Shaw (The Miraculous Revenge) Grazia Deledda (The Sardinian Fox) Sinclair Lewis (What That Kind Of Mush Gets You) Johannes V Jensen (Lost Forests) Herman Hesse (Within And Without) Par Lagerkvist (The Lift That Went Down Into Hell) Haldor Laxness (Lily) [Nebuchadnezzar] Albert Camus (The Guest) Boris Pasternak (Ill Tratto de Apelle)

Existing To Deceive Domestic abuse ain't 'nything to be singing about But this ain't singing it's what's it's gonna be all about It's like the issues take the back of the stands Lost in the glare of the floodlights illuminatin' 'em brands When Cohle talks of "the sin of bein' a father" It shows you gotta look at life a li'l bit harder Checking out the decisions served up on a platter Pickin' 'n' choosin' what you eat, but boy, it don't matter In the end you don't get what you deserve What you get is what the Egyptians tried to preserve Embalming and tombing and wrapping dead people up But like I said, it don't matter, your play in the game is up. 

Excerpts from the Devil's Dictionary  “An ancient philosopher, expounding his conviction that life is no better than death, was asked by a disciple why, then, he did not die. "Because," he replied, "death is no better than life.” I add: It is longer.  Excerpt From: Bierce, Ambrose. “The Devil's Dictionary.” iBooks.  This material may be protected by copyright.