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It might give you some consolation to know that the connection between us means everything and nothing to me. I asked a wise Buddhist friend what it all meant, and she said that this understanding was at the very tenent of Buddhism and life itself. Go figure...
As to history: you are so right about the role of luck in it and its shifting interpretations. I recently saw this wonderful Broadway play, The History Boys, about these bright but wrong-side-of-the-track London kids who wanted to get into Oxford, and they learned every detail about every scuffle, conflict, war and revolution in Western history only to be advised by their mentor that that was not enough. At their entrance interview, they stretched, bent and colored the truth so much they realized they were accepted into Oxford on a pack of lies. So much for history. What I find fascinating is that when destiny called Grant, Lee and Sully, they answered. That is the only real test of courage and the only point when history is true. (I hope the troops have yielded).
It might give you some consolation to know that the connection between us means everything and nothing to me. I asked a wise Buddhist friend what it all meant, and she said that this understanding was at the very tenent of Buddhism and life itself. Go figure...
As to history: you are so right about the role of luck in it and its shifting interpretations. I recently saw this wonderful Broadway play, The History Boys, about these bright but wrong-side-of-the-track London kids who wanted to get into Oxford, and they learned every detail about every scuffle, conflict, war and revolution in Western history only to be advised by their mentor that that was not enough. At their entrance interview, they stretched, bent and colored the truth so much they realized they were accepted into Oxford on a pack of lies. So much for history. What I find fascinating is that when destiny called Grant, Lee and Sully, they answered. That is the only real test of courage and the only point when history is true. (I hope the troops have yielded).
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P.S., Thanks for being the only man in the world brilliant enough to understand my "madness."
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