I couldn’t work out how to do a proper quote on the IHE site, and I’m more comfortable here anyway, so:
The line “His insistence on stopping the world feels like an insult, a slap against existence” reminded me of Chapter 5 of G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, which concerns suicide. In particular:
The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any rape or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings: it insults all women…. But the suicide insults everything on earth by not stealing it. He defiles every flower by refusing to live for its sake. There is not a tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death is not a sneer.
April 1st, 2010 at 12:36PM
I couldn’t work out how to do a proper quote on the IHE site, and I’m more comfortable here anyway, so:
The line “His insistence on stopping the world feels like an insult, a slap against existence” reminded me of Chapter 5 of G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, which concerns suicide. In particular:
April 1st, 2010 at 12:50PM
Fascinating quotation, Eric. Thank you.