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12.6.4

Absurdity is the vine

Jim sends a passage from Pessoa, whom I don't even like, but which I have to agree does sound a little like me.

Let's act like sphinxes, however falsely, until we reach the point of no longer knowing who we are; for we are, in fact, false sphinxes, with no idea of what we are in reality. The only way to be in agreement with life is to disagree with ourselves. Absurdity is divine.

Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them- acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't wish to be, and don't even wish to be taken for being.

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or to see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Also, Ezra is giving away free books (so far languages, programming and fiction) at books for gift, part 1 and click "next entry" to read through subsequent parts of the multi-part entry.

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