Re: ejlist Secret of longevity

["Heidelbauer Andreas" <andreas.heidelbauer@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Perhaps you should read the beginning of Siebzig Verweht I, I think he talks
abot getting older.
Andreas

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Von: Gary Kern <gkern@alumni.Princeton.EDU>
An: ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk <ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Datum: Montag, 15. Februar 1999 08:40
Betreff: ejlist Secret of longevity


>Dear Jüngerites:
>
>Another subject altogether.  Did Jünger anywhere express an opinion as
>to why he lived so long?  Perhaps in SIEBZIG VERWEHT, which I have not
>read?  Was his good fortune all in his genes, or did he think that his
>habits and mental attitude helped?
>
>He surely thought about it, seeing everyone he knew as a young man die
>years and even decades ahead of him.  Paradoxically, the theme appears
>in DIE SCHERE--i.e., every life is complete no matter when it ends.
>That may be guilt talking.
>
>GK
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