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Re: Sad newsby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Jan 12, 2009 at 13:38 UTC ( [id://735670]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
To mourn the passing of a man you didn't know is the very essence of the human condition.
He stimulated you; caused you to think; emote; react; what more can you ask of stranger. There is a poem that I first became aware of through a movie that I --possibly controversially--rate as one of the best ever made: I never knew a wild thing To feel sorry for oneself is arguably a characteristic unique to the human species. As is, feeling sorry for another(*). Could you have one without the other? Is not sympathy the very essence of humanity? Farewell Blazar. The world is a poorer place for your passing. (*)There is some evidence to support the supposition that elephants are capable of feeling sorrow for the loss of another of their aquaintance.
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