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Dostoevsky must have told himself that there is virtue in imagining something awful so vividly, like standing on the edge of a cliff and picturing what it would be like to leap into the abyss. The French call the compulsion ‘l’aapel du vide’ – the call of the void. It’s the desire to experience the awful magnitude of such a small step, to glimpse another world of consequences just for a moment, perhaps to ensure that you will never actually do it. ~ Page 7

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www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Tomb-of-the-Unknown-Soldier Action without a name, a “who” attached to it, is meaningless whereas an artwork retains its relevance whether or not we know the master’s name. Let me remind you of the monuments to the Unknown Soldier after World War I. They bear testimony to the need for finding a “who,” an indetifiable somebody whom four years of mass slaughter should have revealed. The unwillingness to resign oneself to the brutal fact that the agent of the war was actually nobody inspired the erection of the monuments to the unknown ones -- that is to all those whom the war had failed to make known, robbing them thereby, not of their achievement, but of their human dignity. ~ Page 305 (Excerpt: Chapter: Labor, Work, Action ~ “Thinking Without Banister” ~ Hannah Arendt

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You ask me why I live on Green Mountain ? I smile in silence and the quiet mind. Peach petals blow on mountain streams To earths and skies beyond Humankind. ~ Li Po

Historical Structure en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamstown,_West_Virginia HFF ~ Best wishes