Mar 30, 2010 22:32
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. But what would you do with an infinity? I don't know, what do you do with a weekend? Or a 10pm on a Tuesday night? I bought a schedule book once and haven't seen it nor needed it since three days after the purchase. I could just write 'nothing' over and over, for every day. My 8am class is canceled tomorrow. Bam--there's a nothing I could be writing down right now. I need to find that thing...
A seaman, when asked why he chose that life, will say that the sea simply calls to him. If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.