[FRIAM] What can or can't (shouldn't) be said on FriAM...

[Gary Schiltz]

Is that quote by Cormac McCarthy? One of his novels?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:55 PM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> """
> So, Jon, and all of you other ex-perts, Is it the case, or not?  I can see
> that it might be the case for those of you who, unlike me, MIGHT become
> massively important to others later on.  But is it, or is it not, the case
> for we ordinary mortals.
> """
>
> What I am making, perhaps too many, efforts to express is that gentlemen's
> agreements are agreements about what isn't simply given. They are pacts to
> act as if something were simply given, all the while acknowledging that if
> these touchstones were given, there would be no need to mention it.
>
> All men are mortal, but as McCarthy put it:
>
> *So. Here are the dead fathers. Their spirit is entombed in the stone.*
> *It lies upon the land with the same weight and the same ubiquity. For*
> *whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the*
> *common destiny of creatures and he will subside back into the primal*
> *mud with scarcely a cry. But who builds in stone seeks to alter the*
> *structure of the universe...*
>
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