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Old 02-08-2005, 12:27 PM   #11 (permalink)
thinktank
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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
I agree with much of what you say except I do not want to be remembered. That would be way too much "immortality" for me. I'm happy in the "now" and I couldn't be if I wanted to be remembered. It's desire of any sort that keeps us out of the now.

"...vastly limited engagement with your beating heart." Now there's a hell of a phrase.

Thanks!
A lot more on that concept in Milan Kundera's "Immortality".

Hal -
Well said, much of that more or less describes "Tankism", if you will.
 
 

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