tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571197992337228005.post5727924817574941328..comments2023-08-18T05:36:16.586-07:00Comments on m huw evans — editor — writer — reader: Brazil, East Berlin and the End of the WorldM. Huw Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15608919632549675452noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571197992337228005.post-58441474852193599422010-03-16T06:49:44.896-07:002010-03-16T06:49:44.896-07:00Marvelous post. Intensely thought provoking.
Lat...Marvelous post. Intensely thought provoking. <br /><br />Lately I've been dealing less with forebodings of global apocalypse than with mundane, everyday mortality. Even without climate change or cosmological maelstrom, we would all face the inevitability of our own death. <br /><br />I'm 42, and the prospect of my own ending and the end of everyone I care about is very, very real to me now, in a way that was not the case in my 30s. Like an angel that walks with me, to use the cheesy New Age metaphor. It's here in this room, with me, now. Recent personal events have made this middle aged awareness of death even more intense. It's hard to explain. It affects the minute-to-minute visceral quality of the day, almost as if I'm hearing background music, or seeing ghosts.<br /><br />That same sense of mortality will always be something that everyone has to confront, each in their own way, regardless of climate change or authoritarian governments or other world-influencing types of developments. <br /><br />The same emotional process you describe will have to be faced by each one of us in far more personal and prosaic terms. Maybe in a few horrifying seconds on the interstate next week, maybe in a hospital bed thirty years from now. <br /><br />The questions addressed in your post still need to be asked: given the inevitability of all these things going away, what do I do now? How do I best live? And I suspect the answers are much the same as the ones you have come to. Enjoy every second. Savor this life, while you can. Leave something behind that might be of help to those who come after. <br /><br />On a different note, I really need to add all the books you mention to the list of things to do in this life.Procyon Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03842768875936693854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571197992337228005.post-48078244639151965962010-03-14T08:12:58.562-07:002010-03-14T08:12:58.562-07:00Thank you George. Yes, Cloud Atlas is well worth t...Thank you George. Yes, <i>Cloud Atlas</i> is well worth the read. There are many parts of the book that didn't initially strike me as terribly important, but which have haunted me since. Of the many books I've read over the past year, it may be the one to which my thoughts return most frequently when my mind is allowed to wander.M. Huw Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608919632549675452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571197992337228005.post-43027387541582541772010-03-14T03:11:55.433-07:002010-03-14T03:11:55.433-07:00Great Post Ilorien. Among other thing you have con...Great Post Ilorien. Among other thing you have convinced me to (finally) read "Cloud Atlas."George Bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02793939519235087339noreply@blogger.com