commit 9622981bcc88e48d5b8b3366040ac5623f802882
parent 49b51829507637ac0a79146a5c7e9e2a31ed3605
Author: C. Beau Hilton <cbeauhilton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:06:32 -0500
memex update
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diff --git a/florilegium/finite_infinite_games_james_p_carse.md b/florilegium/finite_infinite_games_james_p_carse.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Whoever _must_ play, cannot _play_.
* p. 56
+
_Beau's Note_:
This is reason enough for removing "necessity"
by whatever means necessary---the idea of need,
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ financial need (Money Mustache),
caloric need (fasting),
even moral need (skillful means, _Veni, Sancte Spiritus_).
+---
+
Therefore, poets do not "fit" into society,
not because a place is denied them
but because they do not take their "places" seriously.
@@ -25,17 +28,23 @@ its conflicts performed, and its metaphysics ideological.
* p. 56
+---
+
Society is... an attempt to forget
that we have willfully forgotten
our decision to enter this or that contest and to continue in it.
* p. 41
+---
+
The joyfulness of infinite play,
its laughter, lies in learning to start something we cannot finish.
* Section 24
+---
+
Death in life can be regarded as an achievement,
the result of a spiritual discipline, say,
intended to extinguish all traces of struggle with the world,
@@ -44,8 +53,7 @@ a liberation from the need for any title whatsoever.
* Section 20
-_Beau's Note_
-
-Which Sufi(s) say this?
+_Beau's Note_: Which Sufi(s) say this?
I frequently entertain the idea of not hanging my degree certificates on the wall of my office.
+---
