people in sf love to ask me "what do you think your purpose is??" ten minutes after meeting me. i try to relay this two-paragraph borges story to them in response and they usually like that https://t.co/Qc1wqhQWpO
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people in sf love to ask me "what do you think your purpose is??" ten minutes after meeting me. i try to relay this two-paragraph borges story to them in response and they usually like that https://t.co/Qc1wqhQWpO
What should one do? That may seem a strange question, but it's not meaningless or unanswerable. It's the sort of question kids ask before they learn not to ask big questions. I only came across it myself in the process of investigating something else. But once I did, I thought I should at least try to answer it.
What to Do
The purpose of life! Aye, what is it if not to enjoy life? How can one begin to enjoy life if he is half-dead?
Henry Miller • Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (New Directions Paperbook)
“Mel,” said my father, “you’re supposed to write novels. Haven’t you noticed by this time that everyone’s lives are full of things you can’t understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand. I remember a man I knew when I was first in London …” He broke off. “But fortunately we don’t have to understand. And for that reason we’ve no
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why do you do what you do?