After-Orts #34
A serendipitous haiku in the NYT, from an interview with Jeanie Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers owner and a standup comic:
“These things happen and
you feel like you’re alone, but
people can relate.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/sports/basketball/lakers-jeanie-buss.html
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If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1869-1951)
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On average, someone on earth dies by suicide about once every forty seconds; in [the U.S.], it’s closer to once every eleven minutes.
-- Will Stephenson, Can Suicide Be Prevented?, Harper's Magazine,
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/08/the-undiscovered-country-death-by-suicide-prediction-suicidology/
Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in the same article: "I have read scores of letters from suicides, but none of them ever told the truth.”
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tuj lub (pronounced too-loo):
https://www.tptoriginals.org/how-the-ancient-hmong-game-tuj-lub-came-to-lake-wobegone/
[ed.note: Lake Wobegon is misspelled in the URL]