[MD] Love and Doubt

[MarshaV]

The other day I went to stand in the quick line at the grocery store.  
The man in front of me said something sharp and turned quickly.  I asked 
what he had said since I didn't understand him, but he would't turn 
around.  I studied him.  He was good-looking, late 30s, stood straight 
as an arrow, and his mouth was so tight that my jaw hurt from seeing it.  
He had spread on the conveyor belt an apple, a pear and a banana.
Everyone in the line was absolutely silent.  He seemed military.  
When it was my turn to check out, he was gone, so I asked the 
cashier.  She said people stay clear of him because he seems a loose 
canon  "My buddies died for you maggots." is what I heard him echo 
in my head.  Bits and pieces of pattern, all over the road.   I don't know 
anything, John.  Nothing at all.  

What?   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Y0SMitMpk&NR=1  





  

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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qlJAv6kp-A&feature=related
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>> On Jul 28, 2011, at 11:58 AM, John Carl wrote:
>> 
>>> Back home!  Amongst my family, home and books.  I read a passage (from
>>> Royce's The Rediscovery of the Inner Life)  this morning that very much
>> made
>>> me think of Marsha.  (parenthetitcal comments my own MoQ interpretation)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Every true lover has in the beginning of his love grave doubts of his
>>> beloved's affection for him.  And such doubts often take on bitter and
>> even
>>> cynical forms in his soul in the various bad quarters of an hour that
>> fall
>>> to his lot.  Doubt, however, is not the foe, but the very inspirer of his
>>> love.  It means that the beloved is yet to be won.  It means that the
>> simple
>>> warmth of his aspiration isn't enough, and that, if the beloved is worth
>>> winning, she is worth wooing through doubt and uncertainty for a good
>>> while.  Moreover, it is not the fashion of the beloved to be especially
>>> forward in  quelling such doubts, by making clear her attitude too soon.
>> If
>>> it were, love-making might be a simple affair, but would not be so
>>> significant an experience as it is.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Doubt is the cloud that is needed as a background for love's rainbow.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Even so  in the world of abstract thought.  The more serious faiths of
>>> humanity can only be won, if at all, by virtue of much doubting.  The
>> divine
>>> truth   (DQ) is essentially coy.  You woo her, you toil for her, you
>> reflect
>>> upon her by night and by day, you search through books, study nature,
>> make
>>> experiments, dissect brains, hold learned disputations, take counsel o
>> the
>>> wise; in fine, your prepare your own ripest thought, and lay it before
>> your
>>> heavenly mistress when you have done your best.  Will she be pleased?
>> Will
>>> she reward you with a glance of approval?  Will she say, Thou has well
>>> spoken concerning me?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Who can tell?  Her eyes have their own beautiful fashion of looking far
>> off
>>> when you want them to be turned upon you; and, after all, perhaps she
>>> prefers other suitors for her favor.  The knowledge that she is of
>>> sufficiently exalted dignity to be indifferent to you, if she chooses, is
>>> what constitutes the mood known as philosophical skepticism.  It is not
>>> then, a deadening and weakening mood;  it is the very soul of
>> philosophical
>>> earnestness (caring).
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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