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Smith Street Cellars - 22 Nov 2012 |
Smith Street...Collingwood...not unlike Prospero...conjuring up a fictional world of some moral purpose, self-realisation and destination...barondecharlus@me.com
Neither mystery nor beauty...a method by which to regret nothing
And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to approach near enough to the things that have appeared to us from a distance to be beautiful and mysterious, to be able to satisfy ourselves that they have neither mystery nor beauty. It is one of the systems of mental hygiene among which we are at liberty to choose our own, a system which is perhaps not to be recommended too strongly, but it gives us a certain tranquillity with which to spend what remains of life, and also — since it enables us to regret nothing, by assuring us that we have attained to the best, and that the best was nothing out of the common — with which to resign ourselves to death - Marcel Proust (1871-1922)