http://halfwords.wordpress.com In the dark hours, whispered low Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:02:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://halfwords.wordpress.com http://halfwords.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/madmen/ http://halfwords.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/madmen/#comments Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:02:57 +0000 halfwords https://halfwords.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/madmen/ ]]> Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don’t know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

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