Tuesday 15 May 2007

Someone said... circa 170 (yes, A.D. 170!)...

It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. and for a human being to feel stress is normal- if he's living a normal human life.

And if it's normal, how can it be bad?

From Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' (translation by Gregory Hays).

Can't say I agree but just the thought, that this could well have been said yesterday, seems so strange!

5 comments:

Brown Weed said...

I read your blog, and it makes me smile. To think of what you have read, heard and seen.. and how we think.

I recently finished Sartre's Les chemins de la liberté (but you can do it in French), also pretty much worked out Bach's Air On G. Starting The Idiot..

:-)

Mrinal said...

:) You've been sensibly busy!

Really good to have you Bach! I'll try laying my hands on the Sartre (definitely the English translation!). Had read 'The Idiot' a few years back and found it absolutely brilliant. Have you read 'The Outsider' by Camus? I think you'll like it.

Brown Weed said...

nope, it's been on my list for a while now (alongwith The Plague). I've read The Myth of Sisyphus and a compilation of his essays in Resistance, Rebellion & Death.

There's so much to read and look forward to reading - and that is so good!

Brown Weed said...

It is! it is!!
Brilliant!!!

Mrinal said...

Which one!? Outsider? I think you may like Kafka's America too... it is not that Kafkaesque though!

Also suggested is Saramago's Blindness. Very unsettling. But that's good no!?

How do I know you will read this (I mean this mini-post)Faiz? How?