[Juenger-list] EJ & Burroughs (no angry old men)

[martin krueger" <thingyding@mail.omnitel.it (martin krueger)]

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From: "Richard Brem" <e-ensign@thing.net>
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Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: [Juenger-list] EJ & Burroughs (no angry old men)


> I've noticed that, unlike in the last two years,  no-one on the list
> commemorated Juenger's 'Todestag' on 17 February 1998. I like to do it, a
> bit belated, with the 'Last Words' of William S. Burroughs, written just
one day before his death on 1 August 1997.

Thinking is not enough.
>
> Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience -- any fucking
> thing. No Holy Grail, no Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.
>
> Only thing can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski,
> Spooner and Calico. Pure love.
> What I feel for my cats present and past.
>
> Love? What is It?
> Most natural painkiller what there is.
>
> LOVE.

Wilflingen, 2, Juni 1992
Es gibt nur eine Sünde, der alle möglichen entwachsen wie dem Kopf der Hydra
und der sie entfliegen wie der Büchse der Pandora, wenn sie geöffnet wird.
Das ist die Undankbarkeit.
Und es gibt nur eine Tugend: Dankbarkeit. Sie zelebriert der Säugling, wenn
er schlummert, nachdem er sich an der Brust genährt hat, und die
Sonnenblume, die ihr Haupt zum Licht wendet.

Thankfulness, not love?
One mustn't name love in vain. And the indirect way usually is the shorter
way in matters of spirituality.

Meister Eckhart affirms that he praises detachment more than love (because
detachment leads inevitably to love and humbleness).

Personally I do not agree with Burroughs. The recipes are there. But they
are not at all infallible.
Goethe said "one withdraws bit by bit from the world of appearance". I
appreciate very much that Burroughs hang his heart so much to the world of
appearance, but I am sorry that in his love there is nothing
"impersonal".Thankfulness is more apt to this impersonal dimension, it is
like a threshold.

Regards,

m
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