Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Arithmetic Lesson
Søren Kierkegaard, The Last Years: Journals 1853-1855, tr. R.G. Smith (New York: Harper & Row, 1968):
XI¹ A 384 (p. 141):
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XI¹ A 384 (p. 141):
These millions, the law of whose existence is 'first be like the rest', this mass of aping -- materially they look as if they were something, something great, something immensely powerful. And materially they are indeed something; but ideally this mass, these millions are zero, they are less than zero, they are wasted and forfeited existences.XI² A 90 (pp. 230-231):
One hundred thousand million men, of which each is like the rest = one. Only when one turns up who is different from these millions or this one, do we have two.
