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"One repays a teacher badly if one remains
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Spake Zarathustra, The Gift Giving
Virtue, aphorism
3).
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Live
water heals memories. I look up the creek and here it comes, the future, being born aloft as
on a winding succession of laden trays. You may wake and look from the
window and breath the real air, and say, with satisfaction or with
longing, "This is it." But if you look up the creek, if you look up the
creek in any weather, your spirit fills, and you are saying, with an exulting
rise of the lungs, "Here it comes!"
There must
be something wrong with a creekside person who, all things being equal, chooses to
face downstream. It's like fouling your own nest. For this and a
leather couch they pay fifty dollars an hour? .... But as in the
classic version of the great chain, the pure trickle that leaks from the
unfathomable heart of Tinker Mountain, this Tinker Creek, widens, taking shape
and cleaving banks, weighted with live and intricate impurities of
time,as it descends to me, to where I happen to find myself, in this
intermediate spot, halfway between here and there. Look upstream. Just
simply turn around; have you no will? The future is a spirit, or a
distillation of the spirit, heading my way.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974 |
| The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
-- Thomas Szasz |
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