August 18, 2004

  • Dyer, Part II:


    From Here to Eternity


    “Dying, at its best, might be something like this.  Everything was a memory, and everything was still happening in some extended present, and everything was still to come.”


    – Geoff Dyer, quoted (in part of an entry, Dyer, for yesterday– the day mathematician Shizuo Kakutani died) by Ruth Franklin in


    Journey Without Maps


    A Koan for Kakutani–
    on a random walk, a bird, death, time, and eternity–


    In a comment on the previous entry, a Xangan asks,


    “How many drunk men could migrate to Argentina without a map?”


    My answer:  At least one.

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