I sometimes think about what’s actually valuable about existing, about being alive over not. It’s not bliss, satisfaction, winning, or validation, the first 4 levels here. It’s whatever the emotion paired with the level 5 verb is (cf prompt from 2 days ago).https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1141483296913682433 …
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Reminds me of Kundera's books... Unbearable lightness of being, Immortality
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Kundera or maybe Borges.
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I would go to the tourist spots in my own town every day if it meant I didn’t have to die
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Day 276 would be death, or day3.
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"Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfilment to our dreams" -Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
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On etrnl paradise: Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfct sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?
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The most recent movie which comes to my mind is The Age of Adaline which touched on the disillusionment of these ideas
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The Fountain (2006) by Darren Arronofsky? "Death is the road to awe"
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... That was an awful movie, one of the worst pieces of garbage by a garbage filmmaker...
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