“On my Fortieth Birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis, I decided it might be more interesting to terrify them, by going •completely• mad, and declaring myself as A Magician.
This had been something that had been coming for a •while•….
It seemed to be a logical end step in my career as A Writer, and the problem is that with magic, being in many respects a Science of Language, you have to be •very• careful of What You SAY.
Because if you suddenly declare yourself to be A Magician, without •any• knowledge of what that ENTAILS, then one day you are likely to wake up and to discover that is exactly What You ARE.”
Now I read something a long time ago
and I don't remember who wrote it,
but it was written about Jewish commentary on
The Torah -- God is omniscient,
omnipotent and omnipresent :
What Does He Lack?
And The Answers' "Limitation."
and that's that's a...
That's a Riddle and an Answer
of unparalleled brilliance
as far as I'm concerned
because I think it speaks deeply
to something about
The Central Nature of Existence-Itself
and that is that, without Limitation,
there's no Being.
Now, that's a hard thing to understand
but I think you can understand it
in a number of different ways --
The first thing you mightwant to understand
is that I play this game with my students
sometimes in my class --
I'll come up to
a student, pick a
poor victim at random
and come up to them, say
"Okay, We're to Play a Game.", say, and they say,
"Okay --" and I say
"Well, You Move First --"
Well, they don't know What to Do and
The Reason for that is because
The limiting parameters
of The Game
have not been defined
and as a consequence of that
they're stunned by their infinite freedom into complete immobility
and what that means in a sense
is that the --
In The Absence of Serious Constraint
There can be
no choice
no freedom
no existence
and I believe this to be
fundamentally True
just as the fact that
Human being is vulnerable is
fundamentally True.
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