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February 21, 2009
Goethe pegs it.
We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking.
Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
--Goethe, dead, and possessed of a superior perspective, speaks to Harry Haller, in Steppenwolf (1927)
Hermann Hesse, 1929 (Photo: Gret Widman)
Posted by JD Hull at February 21, 2009 11:59 PM