If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect. In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make. That is why Nietzche called the idea of eternal return the heaviest of burdens.
If eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness.
But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?
The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfilment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half-real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.
What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?
~ Forgive me Kundera, for this is one story I wish not to finish reading because I don't want it to end.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
how to be a korean for one day
1. Learn to make Kim Chi
2. Dress up as one
3. Hang out in their traditional village
Seoul Tower in the distance...
a bunch of Korean school girls who look like dorks coz they don't have the money to go for plastic surgery yet.
2. Dress up as one
3. Hang out in their traditional village
Seoul Tower in the distance...
a bunch of Korean school girls who look like dorks coz they don't have the money to go for plastic surgery yet.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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