Tuesday, 4 February 2020

When We Were Eighteen

(Omar Khayyam.)

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:

Sean M. Brooks said...

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