- 小曼 wrote:“I hate everyone but acted generously and no one found me out. My reputation as a lady’s man was a joke. It cast me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousands nights. Nights alone.”
thanks for sharing, though I beg to differ a little considering this quotation. It seems to me that here he's more than "humble and elegant" in the lovable, amiable sense, but rather being deeply,poignantly self-depreciating, and his generosity /kindness to the mass should thus actually be embedded in this nihilistic view.
also,expression like"eating only vegetables" or "natural agreement"to oriental values" may be too INNOCUOUS that somehow should be "misleading"--misleading one to the conclusion that he's but another characterlessly political-correct, peace-loving 友邦人士, mentally too-HEALTHY.
that nihilistic view i referred to should not be an equivalent of indifference, though, and i guess it's something very similar to Buddha's core, the compassion, something contradictorily sounds Camus's tune,"There's no love of life without despair of life."
This compassion may ultimiately result in that"natural" inclination to Zen.(it might be a logic loophole here, to directly link it to Zen.)
"No great souls are modest",so who said that?
dropin
