The Temptation to Exist

 

Emil Cioran

I and Thou (Ich und du, Either/Or)—what about a philosophical tome Same Different? One wants everything to be the same, to get up, go to work, come home to find the world intact. On the other hand, boredom and the unchanging mess of life are a problem for Madame Bovary. Flaubert’s character even resulted in the coining of a word, Bovarysm. The romantic agony is predicated on the desire for transcendence.  Yet the waves continue to come. There is a hypnotic and reassuring peace in their infinity. They precede and are left for posterity,  without the need for a subjective observer. You read about lives populated with events, the heartthrob with all the lovers. Thrilling existences have an allure, but the free soloist is deprived of serenity. Adrenalin ironically is the antidote for priapism. Anxiety and lovemaking are estranged bedfellows.

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