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

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

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From: "martin krueger" <thingyding@inwind.it>
To: "Richard Brem" <e-ensign@thing.net>; <juenger-list@juenger.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Juenger-list] EJ & Burroughs (no angry old men)


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Brem" <e-ensign@thing.net>
> To: <juenger-list@juenger.org>
> 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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