Thursday, May 21, 2009

What it's all about


Annie Dillard was a wise twenty-something in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Answering a curious London cabbie:


Only the other evening I picked up Bertrand Russell, and I said to him, "Well, Lord Russell, what's it all about," and, do you know, he couldn't tell me... I know what it's all about, and I wish I didn't. The parents die, the next generation lives, ad majorem gloriam, and so it goes.

And so it goes.

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