That stuff is no good. 'the fears' of what?
Everything? Time to head for the hills. Montaigne a French essayist of Life the man who coined the word 'essay' touched base with him for he first time this past week. Essay, to attempt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne
The English essayist William Hazlitt expressed boundless admiration for Montaigne, exclaiming that "he was the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man. ... He was neither a pedant nor a bigot. ... In treating of men and manners, he spoke of them as he found them, not according to preconceived notions and abstract dogmas".[42] Beginning most overtly with the essays in the "familiar" style in his own Table-Talk, Hazlitt tried to follow Montaigne's example.[6]
Ralph Waldo Emerson chose "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic" as a subject of one of his series of lectures entitled Representative Men, alongside other subjects such as Shakespeare and Plato. In "The Skeptic" Emerson writes of his experience reading Montaigne, "It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience." Friedrich Nietzsche judged of Montaigne: "That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on this Earth".[43] Saint-Beuve advises us that "to restore lucidity and proportion to our judgments, let us read every evening a page of Montaigne." [44]
The American philosopher Eric Hoffer employed Montaigne both stylistically and in thought. In Hoffer's memoir, Truth Imagined, he said of Montaigne, "He was writing about me. He knew my innermost thoughts." The Welsh novelist John Cowper Powys expressed his admiration for Montaigne's philosophy in his books Suspended Judgements (1916) and The Pleasures of Literature (1938). Judith N. Shklar introduces her book Ordinary Vices (1984), "It is only if we step outside the divinely ruled moral universe that we can really put our minds to the common ills we inflict upon one another each day. That is what Montaigne did and that is why he is the hero of this book. In spirit he is on every one of its pages..."
20th century literary critic Erich Auerbach called Montaigne the first modern man. "Among all his contemporaries," writes Auerbach (Mimesis, Chapter 12), "he had the
clearest conception of the problem of man's self-orientation; that is, the task of making oneself at home in existence without fixed points of support." [45]
Where am I? How is that working for you Guy? 'the task of making oneself at home in existence without fixed points of support.' Why am I not working at Safeway right now on my first day of training? did I obey some higher moral calling or succumb to 'the fears' ?.. My insomnia fired up last night after my usual first 3 hours of sleep with the help of a full 5mg of Melatonin as the time approached for the alarm .. 6:10 AM the thought occurred to me forget it I am done... debilitated beyond redemption... They will survive without me at Safeway. I had only contacted some friendly young woman in their corporate hierarchy who had assigned me the Safeway Red Hill for .. OJT
On the Job Training. No one else even knew....
I passed Andronico's today, they are busy clearing it out, a big sign says reopening February 26 or was it the 28th. Safeway Community Market.
I don't have the courage of a Montaigne to drop facts of his bodily sufferings as he writes on grand social themes.. I can't even tackle the grand social themes let alone the banality and misery of my own biological crap.. but who the heck really wants to hear about, passing kidney stones etc.. (in Montaignes case) well still I haven't actually read him.
There are things to do and today with my foggy head and with my usual shoulder bag , weight, over my Shoulder with various NY Times, New Yorkers, Bill Press' Buyer's Remorse .. always ready to drop some new bomb on the innocent Obama supporters of the world. As Congressman Keith Ellison said on the back cover of the Book "Bill Press speaks truth to power" I wonder if President Obama noticed that or is the President just being very practical in not supporting Mr Ellison in his attempt to become President of the DNC. However the fact that Congressman Ellison is still a Muslim and can't seem to escape his defense of Farrakhan the Black Muslim leader years ago, maybe it's best he not be the face of the new DNC. What an adult writes down or speaks can be held against him even if he is merely a youthful soul still getting many lessons of life and making many mistakes on the path.
Don't be afraid of mistakes someone reminded me again lately. Get out there and keep trying, maybe something will work. Tell you what... just being Life works. I got to wonder without that bag over my shoulder. later.
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