Ridiculous pursuits, matters solemn and less so
In yesterday’s post ruminating about questions whose answers (at least in theory) may be more obvious than they first seem, I included a fifteen-point “meme” about movies; I didn’t actually respond to the meme there. In a comment, Jules asked what my choices would have been.
Here y’go.
[Image: xkcd #936, on password strength. Click image to enlarge; see xkcd itself for the full six panels and the punchline.]
From whiskey river:
This accidental
meeting of possibilities
calls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?
And, at once, this I
becomes unreal.
(Dag Hammarskjöld [source])
…and:
Ch’ui the draftsman
Could draw more perfect circles freehand
Than with a compass.His fingers brought forth
Spontaneous forms from nowhere. His mind
Was meanwhile free and without concern
With what he was doing.No application was needed
His mind was perfectly simple
And knew no obstacle.So, when the shoe fits
The foot is forgotten,
When the belt fits
The belly is forgotten,
When the heart is right
“For” and “against” are forgotten.No drives, no compulsions,
No needs, no attractions:
Then your affairs
Are under control.
You are a free man.Easy is right. Begin right
And you are easy.
Continue easy and you are right.
The right way to go easy
Is to forget the right way
And forget that the going is easy.
(Chuang Tzu [source])
