"...Parents are flawed or triumphant, but never exactly in the ways our children sometimes imagine. I wish, very much, that my father had been there to set the record straight, or at least to tame my fantasies and fears. I don’t want the whole truth (that, I am sure, is too much to ask), but a story that everyone can live with. This is what I want, at least for Becca..."And see The Dreadful Dads of Existentialism...*
Me, then... and now.
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- “The most necessary thing in life is the tolerance, patience, regard, and love of neighbour, of which everyone stands in need, and which, therefore, every man owes to his fellow’”-thus spake dour Schopenhauer, who shoved his elderly neighbor down the stairs. “Dreadful” indeed.
- with Clancy Martin in lead up to HIKING WITH NIETZSCHE (Sept. FSG) @fsgbooks @Skye_Cleary @philosophybites https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-childless-fathers-of-existentialism-teach-real-dads …
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