"From the darkness, sleeping light." Formerly luminus dormiens. Lux pacis, light of peace.

Quote: "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Bill Watterson, cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes

20040419

forgotten anniversary (long soliloquy)

I have to say I've forgotten to celebrate the more than two years of starting this blog. I know I've neglected many months between February 2002 and March 2003, but hey, I didn't really feel--y'know--that open. Now I'm wondering whether I should just delete some embarrassing posts from the first several months. "It was a deep moment of sexual unfulfillment." Hah! Well, I'll just let bygones [sp?] be bygones. It's forever a part of the Internet. I'm sure someone has backed up everything. If not, then it's exactly like magic, it will dissolve, whose art is long lost, irrecoverable.

Some people take extraordinary relief in such an easy dissolution of information, that everything disappears because it was meant to do so. If one bit is out of place, so goes th' oblivion. I wonder sometimes how it is that we can be so keenly aware of our own destruction, that we seek to preserve ourselves by any means available to us. But importance in perception is only to ourselves, not to any other animals. For we must admit that were all the consciousness and intelligence and reasoning, i.e. human beings that harbor such capabilities, to vanish from the earth. It is unlikely that earth will evolve another entity that will be capable of understanding what we have created. Moreover, moreover, it shows the uselessness of self-preservation. What can we admit of making ourselves last forever, when there is no one to see it? It brings up a certain nilly-willy quote about a tree in a forest.

Just because it's there doesn't mean that it will be of any use except to one that recognize it.

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