A Stone In Heaven, VI.
Miriam Abrams thinks that:
"'...Creation must have a purpose.'" (p. 71)
Flandry replies that human lives do not have much self-created purpose and that mankind's public creations like the Terran Empire are absurdities. He adds:
"'Ah, well, we went through this argument at the age of eighteen or thereabouts, didn't we? Smoke?'" (pp. 71-72)
Some of us are still having this argument a lifetime later but Flandry echoes Omar Khayyam:
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor
and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore
came out by the same door as in I went.
-copied from here.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Even Our Lord Himself did that as well as a boy, when He listened to the debates of the doctors of the Law in the Temple, and asked them questions.
Ad astra! Sean
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