As we are drenched in the background radiation from the origin of the
universe and the song of planets and suns singing to each other in
basso profundo static, so "The Archers" is just about now reaching
Ursa Major and will probably carry on and on and on ... it may be that
words will remain and the decoders will have died. If new decoders
arise, they may find amongst the static the remnants of older races.
Roger
On 10/31/06, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Nothing will last forever, I hope, least of all words, words, words:
> "Denn alles, was entsteht,/ Ist wert, dass es zugrunde geht." (*Faust*)
> Of course, Mephisto goes on: Drum besser wär's, dass nichts entstünde.
> This appears to contradict Nietzsche's "Denn alle Lust will Ewigkeit,
> will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit." But N. (who relativises the first part of
> the Goethe quote in *Also sprach Zarathustra*) does not say the objects
> of pleasure/joy/desire must be eternal, it is the joy/desire itself that
> requires eternity, perhaps as an aspect of itself? No finite object can
> ever be adequate to Lust. Mephisto, like Plato, is distrustful of
> Becoming; the first part of his statement is true: all that comes into
> existence is entitled to vanish in the abyss of oblivion; the second
> part is only true for those who resent transience. Their secret nihilism
> is to say with Meph that it were better that nothing ever came into
> existence, if transience is true .
>
> Anxious words, unwilling to pass away, like streetscapes
> and fountains, like visitors from outer space entrenched on some border
> fondling sunset glow before abruptly releasing a bolt of brocade beauty:
> the void is no more than a flower! - Zhang Zao: "The Infinite"
>
>
> emjay
> Roger Day wrote:
>
> > When manufactured diamond becomes cheap enough, I think it will be
> > used as a storage medium. Diamond will last virtually forever, if kept
> > correctly.
>
>
> --
>
> M.J. Walker: http://walkoff.wordpress.com/
>
> Got to look at it at sunset when it's PINK
> My guidebook said. Good advice about anything I suppose.
>
> Kenneth Koch
>
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