“How can there be laughter, how can there be pleasure, when the whole world is burning?”
-The Dhammapada
And yet there’s laughter. There’s pleasure. And not just for those who would refuse to acknowledge the fire. The burning world around us even adds to the fantastic lunacy of that laughter. Wild gods in the rapture of absolute tragedy, we say, “Let it burn.”
Denver
March 17, 2009
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