The final, and most difficult constraint to overcome, is ignorance. As a rational animal, there is ultimately one choice, the most important choice: the choice between good and evil. Since freedom is to act in accordance to one’s true nature as rational, only choosing the “good” is a free choice. Continue reading
All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. Continue reading
Lara has to be the love of his life, with no other. Hence, he catches one final glimpse of her. We may hope that Lara is his Beatrice, the revelation of Sophia, assuming that his life and poetry had made him wise. Continue reading
Just as eternal life is seeing God,
longing for nothing greater, no longer longing,
so I’m made happy, my lady, by seeing you
in this brief and fragile life of mine. Continue reading
Laura is a dissatisfied housewife who realizes that an essential element is missing. Laura, it must be noted, is the name of the mysterious woman who was the subject of so many of Petrarch’s sonnets. Hence, she must not be understood as a contemporary woman eager for sexual experiences, although she is never quite sure of what is missing in her life. Continue reading
Stuff happens and then she lives happily ever after. Continue reading
The Sun is not at the geometric center of any planet’s orbit, but rather approximately at one focus of the elliptical orbit. Furthermore, to the extent that a planet’s mass cannot be neglected in comparison to the Sun’s mass, the center of gravity of the Solar System is displaced slightly away from the center of the Sun. Continue reading
Naked in bed together the next morning, she asks, “Now what?” He suggests, “we get a dog, get married, have children, buy a house.” And “then what?” she asks again. “Life as usual,” Continue reading
All great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented that the result is a complex mystification. Continue reading
I woke up so happy on Venus day this morning, so I decided not to go back to sleep. I was thinking about Pumpkin Spice Muffins. I made some earlier in the week and they attracted family, friends, and foes. Continue reading