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Monday, 2 January 2012
...my 2012 ire....
..."when I look back on my life nowadays,which I do,what strikes me the most forcibly about it is that what seemed @ the time most significant and seductive,seems now most futile and absurd.For instance,the success in all of its various guises,being known and praised,ostensible pleasures lyk acquiring money or seducing women,travelling,going to & fro in the world and up n downs in it lyk Satan,explaining and experiencing whatever vanity fair had to offer.In retrospect,all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy,what Pascal called,"licking the earth".......
....my 2012 ire.....
..."when I look back on my life nowadays,which I do,what strikes me the most forcibly about it is that what seemed @ the time most significant and seductive,seems now most futile and absurd.For instance,the success in all of its various guises,being known and praised,ostensible pleasures lyk acquiring money or seducing women,travelling,going to & fro in the world and up n downs in it lyk Satan,explaining and experiencing whatever vanity fair had to offer.In retrospect,all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy,what Pascal called,"licking the earth".......
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