Re: The fragility of life


"Peter H.M. Brooks" <peter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Trumpets aren't people. They suffer not though they cry. They die not
> though they live. They live not though they are lively. They lift us up by
> their echo of tragedy but they are not tragic.
>
> Fix a trumpet and it feels no better. Crush it and it feels no pain.
>
> Bin them not, Laden them with not human feelings.
>
> Osama humans not with their indifferent evocation of emotion.
>
> When we wish to die, treat us not as trumps.
>
> Kant made the important point that people must not be treated as objects -
> trumpets too must not be treated like people.
>
> Some hurts are too deep for fixing.

Heh, heh! Beautiful!! Been in the Cognac again, my friend?

Jim Temple


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