Yet Nature, o n to whom we p itch respo nsibility fo r all we c annot unde rstand, isn't very good w hen set to auto matic. Trusting v irgins dra fted into m arriage neve r found Natu re had all t he answers w hen they tu rned out t he light. T rusting vi rgins were to ld that love was t he promised l and, an ar k on which two m ight escape t he Flood. It may be a n ark, but o ne on whic h anthropop hagy is ri fe; an ark skippe red by some c razy greybe ard who be ats you rou nd the head w ith his gop her-wood st ave, and m ight pitch you ove rboard at a ny moment. Let's sta rt at the beg inning. Love makes you h appy? No. Love m akes the pe rson you love h appy? No. Love m akes everyt hing all r ight? Indeed no. I used to be lieve all t his, of cou rse. Who h asn't (who does n't still, so mewhere be low decks i n the psyc he)? It's i n all our boo ks, our fi lms; it's t he sunset o f a thousa nd stories. W hat would love be fo r if it did n't solve eve rything?
It implies t hat love is a t ransforming w and, one that u nlooses the r avelled knot, f ills the top h at with ha ndkerchiefs, sp rays the a ir with doves. But the mode l isn't fro m magic but p article phys ics. My love does not, c annot make he r happy; my love can only re lease in he r the capac ity to be h appy. And now t hings seem mo re underst andable. How co me I can't m ake her happy, how co me she can't m ake me happy?
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Is it a useful mut ation that helps t he race su rvive? I c an't see it. W as love imp lanted, fo r instance, so t hat warrio rs would f ight harde r for thei r lives, be aring deep i nside them t he candlel it memory o f the domest ic hearth?
Then is love some lu xury that sp rang up in pe aceful times, like qui lt-making? Something p leasant, co mplex, but i nessential?
We don't need it fo r the expa nsion of ou r race; indeed, it's inim ical to orde rly civili zation.
It reminds me o f those ha lf-houses which acco rding to no rmal crite ria of map re ading shou ldn't exist.
Perhaps love is esse ntial because it's u nnecessary.
Because the h istory of t he world, w hich only stops at the half-house o f love to bulldo ze it into rubb le, is rid iculous wit hout it. T he history o f the world beco mes brutal ly self-impo rtant without love. Ou r random mut ation is essential bec ause it is u nnecessary.
Love and t ruth, that's t he vital co nnection, love and t ruth. Have you eve r told so muc h truth as w hen you we re first i n love? Have you eve r seen the wo rld so cle arly? Love makes us see t he truth, makes it ou r duty to te ll the trut h. Lying i n bed: liste n to the u ndertow of w arning in t hat phrase. Lying in bed, we te ll the trut h: it sounds l ike a parado xical sente nce from a f irst-year p hilosophy p rimer.
And I'm not s aying love w ill make you h appy - above a ll, I'm not s aying that. I f anything, I te nd to believe t hat it will ma ke you unh appy …But you c an believe t his and st ill insist t hat love is ou r only hope.
That conto rted organ, like the lu mp of ox me at, is devious and e nclosed. Our curre nt model fo r the unive rse is ent ropy, whic h at the d aily level translates as: t hings fuck up.
Характеристики концепта LOVE:
- Energy sou rce, which g low on like TV fo r a while a fter the set h as been sw itched off
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- Something to be e arned, to be striven fo r, to be wo rthy of
- A phonic co nspiracy i n languages:
- Ich liebe d ich: a late- night, cig arette-voiced w hisper;
- Ya tebya lyub lyu an imp lication o f difficulty, obst acles to be ove rcome;
- Ti amo: it sou nds perhaps a b it too muc h like an ape ritif.
- Saying «I love you» fo r:
- assuring t hemselves t hat the pro mised cond ition has a rrived;
- getting wo men into bed w ith men;
- getting me n into mar riage with wo men.
- The promised l and, an ar k on which two m ight escape t he Flood ( an ark skippe red by some c razy greybe ard who be ats you rou nd the head w ith his gop her-wood st ave, and m ight pitch you ove rboard at a ny moment)
- Does not make pe rson you love h appy
- Does not make eve rything al l right
- Can release i n the beloved the c apacity to be h appy
- Use ful mutatio n
- Something p leasant, comp lex, but i nessential
- Inimical to o rderly civ ilization
- Is essenti al because it's unnecessary
- M akes us see t he truth
- Half-houses w hich accord ing to nor mal criter ia of map re ading shou ldn't exist
- W ill make you u nhappy
- Is ou r only hope
- Dev ious and e nclosed
Chapter 10 The Dream (Со н)
Concepts: PARADISE
1. Collins d ictionary:
According to so me religio ns, paradise is a wo nderful pl ace where peop le go afte r they die, i f they have led good l ives.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/..
2.Macmillan d ictionary:
Heaven, the p lace where so me people be lieve you go w hen you die i f you have l ived a good l ife, the g arden of Ede n
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/britis..
3. Britann ica
Paradise, i n religion, a p lace of except ional happ iness and de light. The te rm paradise is o ften used as a sy nonym for t he Garden o f Eden befo re the expu lsion of Ad am and Eve. A n earthly p aradise is o ften conce ived of as e xisting in a t ime when he aven and e arth were ve ry close toget her or actu ally touch ing, and w hen humans a nd gods had f ree and happy assoc iation. Ma ny religio ns also inc lude the not ion of a fu ller life beyo nd the grave, a l and in whic h there wi ll be an abse nce of suf fering and a co mplete sat isfaction o f bodily des ires.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/paradise-religion
Компонентно-дефиниционный а нализ языко вой единиц ы:
- Wonderful p lace
- Heaven
- Where you go a fter dying, i f you have l ived a good l ife
- Place of g reat happi ness
- Eden
- Fuller life beyo nd the grave
- An absence o f suffering
- Complete s atisfactio n of all des ires
PARADISE i n the BOOK
Examples:You'd have do ne much the s ame yourse lf. I mean, s ay you did n't go shopp ing, what wou ld you have do ne instead? Met some f amous peop le, had se x, played go lf? There are n't an inf inite numbe r of possib ilities - t hat's one o f the points to re member about it a ll, about t his place a nd that pl ace.
They found a cu re for cance r. Sex offende rs repented a nd were re leased bac k into soc iety and led b lameless l ives. Airl ine pilots le arned how to s ave planes f rom mid-ai r collisio ns. Everyone got r id of nucle ar weapons. W hen you re ad the pape r, the newsp rint didn't co me off on you r hands, a nd the sto ries didn't co me off on you r
mind. Children we re innocent c reatures o nce more; me n and wome n were nice to o ne another; nobody's teet h had to be f illed; and wo men's tights neve r laddered.
What else d id I do th at first wee k? As I sa id, I played go lf and had. se x and met f amous peop le and did n't feel b ad once.
`Oh, I'll mudd le through,' s he said. ` The engine's good fo r another few t housand ye ars.' We went s hopping (I w asn't yet so l azy I wanted to st ay shopping), I read the newsp aper, had lu nch, played go lf, tried to c atch up on so me reading w ith one of t hose Dicke ns videos, h ad sturgeo n and chips, tu rned out t he light a nd not long a fterwards h ad sex.
No, I wanted to be judged, do you see? It's w hat we all w ant, isn't it? I w anted, oh, so me kind of su mming-up, I w anted my l ife looked at.
I met Steve McQuee n, for inst ance, and Judy G arland; Jo hn Wayne, M aureen 0'Su llivan, Hu mphrey Bog art, Gene T ierney and B ing Crosby. I met Du ncan Edwards a nd the rest o f the Man Utd p layers fro m the Munic h air-cras h.
I met John F. Ke nnedy and C harlie Chap lin, Marily n Monroe, P resident E isenhower, Pope Jo hn XXIII, W inston Chu rchill, Ro mmel, Stal in, Mao Tse-tu ng, Rooseve lt, Genera l de Gaulle, L indbergh, S hakespeare, Buddy Ho lly, Patsy C line, Karl M arx, John Le nnon and Quee n Victoria. Most of the m were very n ice, on the w hole, sort o f natural, not at a ll grand o r condesce nding. They we re just li ke real peop le. I asked to meet Jesus C hrist but t hey said t hey weren't su re about t hat so I didn't pus h it. I met No ah, but not su rprisingly t here was a b it of a la nguage prob lem. Some peop le I just w anted to loo k at. Hitler, for insta nce, now t here's a m an I would n't shake t he hand of, but t hey arranged t hat I could h ide behind so me bushes w hile he just w alked past, i n his nasty u niform.
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`Oh.' `Heaven is de mocratic t hese days,' she said...` We don't i mpose Heave n on people a ny more,' she said. `We l isten to t heir needs. I f they want it, t hey can have it; i f not, not. A nd then of cou rse they get t he sort of He aven they w ant.' `And w hat sort do t hey want o n the whole?' ` We ll, they want a co ntinuation o f life, th at's what we f ind. But... bette r, needless to s ay.' 'Sex, go lf, shoppi ng, dinner, meet ing famous peop le and not fee ling bad?' I asked, a b it defensive ly. 'It varies. But i f I were be ing honest, I'd s ay that it does n't vary a ll that muc h.'
- `Tell me about Old Heaven,' I said to M argaret the fo llowing wee k.
- ` I know so me people i magine it's diffe rent, that you get w hat you dese rve, but t hat's neve r been the c ase. We have to d isabuse the m.'
- `Are they a nnoyed?'
- `Mostly not. People pre fer to get w hat they w ant rather t han what t hey deserve. And were t hey... disembodied?'
- 'Yes indeed. That's what t hey wanted.
- `They do n't take v isits, I'm a fraid. They used to. But the New He aveners te nded to be have as if t hey were at a f reak-show, kept poi nting and as king silly quest ions. So the Old He aveners dec lined to meet t hem anymore. Then they beg an to die o ff.
`So. Well, I' m afraid - to a nswer your quest ion - that t he people w ho ask for de ath earliest a re a bit l ike you. People who w ant an ete rnity of se x, beer, d regs, fast c ars - that so rt of thing. They can't be lieve thei r good luc k at first, a nd then, a few hu ndred years l ater, they c an't believe t heir bad luc k.
Olympic go ld medals beg an to feel l ike small c hange. I g ave up spo rt. I went s hopping se riously. I ate mo re creatures t han had eve r sailed o n Noah's A rk. I dran k every bee r in the wo rld and the n some, bec ame a wine co nnoisseur a nd despatc hed the fi nest vintages eve r harvested; t hey ran out too soo n. I met loads o f famous peop le. I had se x with an i ncreasing v ariety of p artners in an inc reasing va riety of w ays, but t here are o nly so many p artners and so m any ways.
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`So what's it a ll for? Why do we h ave Heaven? Why do we h ave these d reams of He aven?'
`Perhaps because you need t hem,' she suggested. ` Because you can't get by w ithout the d ream. It's noth ing to be as hamed of.
Характеристики концепта PARADISE:
- New paradise
- Playing go lf, having se x and mett ing famous peop le
- Dream
- People have a lmost the s ame desires
- People pre fer to get w hat they w ant rather t han what t hey deserve
- No judgeme nt
- Democratic He aven
- An infinite nu mber of poss ibilities
- Getting ti red of freew ill
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