Pamela's Blog 10

Published on Thursday, May 14, 2009 by Nas2EndWork.org

“To Live and Die a Slave”

* 02.05.10 Addendum

** 10.16.09 Addendum: George's spin

by Pamela Satterwhite

“To live and die a slave” –

There’s something hideous about that phrase.

To never walk uncurdled, to never feel the surge of the source, to never sup at the taproot, to never fly on the wind unafraid.

What, then, did it mean?

Why, then, did I live?

In such circumstances as these, one huddles easily in the End.

* 02.05.10 Addendum: ...

"We all know, if only unconsciously, that our lives are being stolen. And so we feel entitled to the “Compensatory Cheap Thrill of Consumption”. [From: Waking Up.] But this 'solution' never really 'works,' does it?...as it's impossible to compensate for the act of abandoning one's own or others' souls – i.e., complicity.

...And when the first shadow of dark-robed Death falls upon us – which is only Life in the guise of "The Great Reconciler" – threatening to gather us back to her breast...then...

...we can no longer delude ourselves that we've ever lived....

...The panic that results...

...as Life balances accounts...

...

"..And that's what we fear most, isn't it?...when we think we fear Death...we fear that we've never lived..." (from: The 4 Ruses – 3)

** 10.16.09 Addendum: George's spin:

It is an uneasy lot at best...to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self – never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. Becoming a dean or even a bishop would make little difference, I fear, to Mr Casaubon's uneasiness. Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control. (George Eliot, Middlemarch)

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Published on Thursday, May 14, 2009 by Nas2EndWork.org

“To Live and Die a Slave”