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Phoebe — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:02:36 -0000

Spirit of adventure is important. Do not underestimate that. You have to either both have it to stay together, or both not have it. Be glad you both have it.

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sansouci — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:12:52 -0000

I have always believed that hope and entropy run the universe. If you can embrace that then life gets a little more bearable and a little more beautiful.

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Bruce — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:41:46 -0000

wow...that's some deep ish!

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Mr. Zarch — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:47:58 -0000

Not exactly on topic, but I always heard it as "things fall apart, intentions shatter." Doesn't make that big a difference.

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Jordan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:25:09 -0000

One of the most amazing stories I've ever heard goes something like this:

A guy decides to solo (climb without any kind of protection) up a crack. He hasn't even told anyone where he is. When he gets to a point where the crack splits, he takes the left fork, instead of the right fork. Eventually the crack runs out, but he can see a ledge just within the distance that he thinks he can dyno (jump to a hold). He makes the dyno and hauls himself up on to the ledge. Above him is a completely blank rock wall. Not even a few nubbins to grab. So he looks down and thinks "The only way I'm getting off of here is by down-dynoing into the crack." And he does. Goes back to the fork and takes the right way to finish up the route.

Just to make it clear, this guy dropped down without anything to catch him and managed to jam his hands into a crack in the rock face to catch himself. I've been climbing for well over a dozen years and couldn't even imagine pulling something like that off, even with all the protection in the world. It's amazing from a purely physical perspective. Then add in the fact that he was doing it without a rope to catch him. I've come to the conclusion that the only way he could make a decision like that is if he had decided that he was already dead. The only other option was sitting on the ledge until he died from exposure or thirst. At that point you might as well take the risk because you truly have nothing to lose.

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Amari — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:22:54 -0000

This reminds me of a talk I heard Sheila Nevins from HBO give recently. When asked what she looks for when choosing a documentary, she said that she's always more interested in character instead of story, and that she always looks for the twists and turns, the unexpected moment. Because as she said, "In life, we know how the story ends. Might as well have as many suprises as you can along the way."

I think it resonated with me because I there's a level on which we are always subconsciously aware that we are constantly moving toward the moment where we cease to exist. And that the possibility of that moment happening in the very next second is always immiment. But we live anyway. Something courageous in that, I think.

Especially for the kind of people who, instead of allowing themselves to be pushed along on the moving walkways of life, pick up their shit and start walking forward.

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Ted — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:05:50 -0000

I was 17 when "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" came out. My lifelong philosophical takeway from that movie was this exchange as they prepare to jump off a cliff into a river to escape their pursuers:

Butch Cassidy: What's the matter with you?

Sundance Kid: I can't swim.

Butch Cassidy: Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.

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deva — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:04:56 -0000

Thank you for the reminder. Beautiful, brilliant song.

Though I'm not sure I agree with the thrust of Yeats, or Achebe, or TNC. I think it is what we do in the face of anarchy and entropy that matters. Anarchy does/would exist without any sentience ever being present in the universe. Nothing else would. To me, the surprise is not that things fall apart, but that they so often, so unexpectedly, so against odds, indeed, the ultimate physical laws of the universe (entropy: http://www.entropylaw.com/), hold together.

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femmedou — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:02:23 -0000

Hello, lurker and first time poster here. Yep, Achebe takes his title for Things Fall Apart from Yeats' "The Second Coming". I'm working from home and grabbed the book from my bookshelf...here is excerpt included at the beginning of the book:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

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Sam — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:00:18 -0000

You're right.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:46:56 -0000

That's second part. And yeah thats kinda the point. I havent read Things Fall Apart in years. And even that book takes its title from something else, no? "The center can not hold..." Yeats, I think.

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Sam — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:40:57 -0000

I always thought that it was a cool reference to Chinua Achebe. As long as you cite the song, I think you've got to give him his props for the first part of that line.

"But we was like, that shit don't matta..." Isn't that how it goes? Can't watch the video at work.

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Brian L — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:22:58 -0000

Off point from the substance, but love the Atwater reference. Was and still is my favorite player, after Barry Sanders, of all time.