December 9, 2002

• ART WARS: 

  
  

  A Metaphysical State

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Diane Keaton

  Frank Sinatra

  
  

  “Heaven is a state, a sort of metaphysical state.”

  
  

   — John O’Hara, Hope of Heaven, 1938

  
  

  “I’ve always been enthralled by the notion that Time is an illusion, a trick our minds play in an attempt to keep things separate, without any reality of its own. My experience suggests that this is literally true, but not the kind of truth that can be acted upon….

  
  

  I’m always sad and always happy. As someone says in Diane Keaton’s film ‘Heaven,’ ‘It’s kind of a lost cause, but it’s a great experience.’”

  
  

   — Charles Small, Harvard ’64 25th Anniv. Report, 1989

  
  

  “As a child she would wait out her naptime like a prison sentence.  She would lie in bed and stare at the wallpaper pattern and wonder what would happen if there were no heaven.  She thought the universe would probably go on and on, spilling all over everything.  Heaven was kind of a hat on the universe, a lid that kept everything underneath it where it belonged.”

  
  

   — Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge, 1987

  
  

  Today’s site music illustrates 
  the above philosophical remarks.

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