Chapter 5: Shipwreck (Кораблекрушение) 3 страница

Yet Nature, on to whom we pitch responsibility for all we cannot understand, isn't very good w  hen set to auto  matic. Trusting virgins drafted into marriage never found Nature had all the answers when they turned out the light. Trusting virgins were told that love was t  he promised l  and, an ar  k on which two m  ight escape t  he Flood. It may be an ark, but one on which anthropophagy is rife; 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 start at the beginning. 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 believe all this, of course. Who hasn't (who doesn't still, somewhere below decks in the psyche)? It's in all our books, our films; it's the sunset of a thousand stories. What would love be for if it didn't solve everything?

It implies that 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 model isn't from magic but particle physics. 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 things seem more understandable. How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy?

Is it a useful mut  ation that helps the race survive? I can't see it. Was love implanted, for instance, so that warriors would fight harder for their lives, bearing deep inside them the candlelit memory of the domestic hearth?

Then is love some lu  xury that sp  rang up in pe  aceful times, like quilt-making? Something p  leasant, co  mplex, but i  nessential?

We don't need it for the expansion of our race; indeed, it's inim  ical to orde  rly civili  zation.

It reminds me o  f those ha  lf-houses which according to normal criteria of map reading shouldn't exist.

Perhaps love is esse  ntial because it's u  nnecessary.

Because the history of the world, which only stops at the half-house o  f love to bulldoze it into rubble, is ridiculous without it. The history of the world becomes brutally self-important without love. Our random mutation is essential bec  ause it is u  nnecessary.

Love and t  ruth, that's t  he vital co  nnection, love and truth. Have you ever told so much truth as when you were first in love? Have you ever seen the world so clearly? Love makes us see t  he truth, makes it our duty to tell the truth. Lying in bed: listen to the undertow of warning in that phrase. Lying in bed, we te  ll the trut  h: it sounds like a paradoxical sentence from a first-year philosophy primer.

And I'm not saying love will make you happy - above all, I'm not saying that. If anything, I tend to believe that it will ma  ke you unh  appy …But you can believe this and still insist that love is ou  r only hope.

That contorted organ, like the lu  mp of ox me  at, is devious and e  nclosed. Our current model for the universe is entropy, which at the daily level translates as: things fuck up.

Характеристики концепта LOVE:

- Energy source, which glow on like TV for a while after the set has been switched off

- Something to be earned, to be striven for, to be worthy of

- A phonic conspiracy in languages:

- Ich liebe dich: a late-night, cigarette-voiced whisper;

- Ya tebya lyublyu an implication of difficulty, obstacles to be overcome;

- Ti amo: it sounds perhaps a bit too much like an aperitif.

   - Saying «I love you» for:

- assuring themselves that the promised condition has arrived;

- getting women into bed with men;

- getting men into marriage with women.

  - The promised land, an ark on which two might escape the Flood (an ark skippered by some crazy greybeard who beats you round the head with his gopher-wood stave, and might pitch you overboard at any moment)

- Does not make person you love happy

- Does not make everything all right

- Can release in the beloved the capacity to be happy

- Useful mutation

- Something pleasant, complex, but inessential

- Inimical to orderly civilization

  - Is essential because it's unnecessary

  - Makes us see the truth

  - Half-houses which according to normal criteria of map reading shouldn't exist

   - Will make you unhappy

   - Is our only hope

   - Devious and enclosed

Chapter 10 The Dream (Со  н)

Concepts: PARADISE

1. Collins dictionary:

According to some religions, paradise is a wonderful place where people go after they die, if they have led good lives.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/..

2.Macmillan dictionary:

Heaven, the place where some people believe you go when you die if you have lived a good life, the garden of Eden

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/britis..

3. Britannica

Paradise, in religion, a place of exceptional happiness and delight. The term paradise is often used as a synonym for the Garden of Eden before the expulsion of Adam and Eve. An earthly paradise is often conceived of as existing in a time when heaven and earth were very close together or actually touching, and when humans and gods had free and happy association. Many religions also include the notion of a fuller life beyond the grave, a land in which there will be an absence of suffering and a complete satisfaction of bodily desires.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/paradise-religion

Компонентно-дефиниционный анализ языковой единицы:

- Wonderful place

- Heaven

- Where you go after dying, if you have lived a good life

- Place of great happiness

- Eden

- Fuller life beyond the grave

- An absence of suffering

- Complete satisfaction of all desires

PARADISE i  n the BOOK

Examples:You'd have done much the same yourself. I mean, say you didn't go shopping, what would you have done instead? Met some f  amous peop  le, had se  x, played go  lf? There aren't an infinite number of possibilities - that's one of the points to remember about it all, about this place and that place.

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 rid of nuclear weapons. When you read the paper, the newsprint didn't come off on your hands, and the stories didn't come off on your

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 did I do that first week? As I said, 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<sup> </sup>le through,' s<sup> </sup>he said. ` The engine's good fo  r another few t  housand ye  ars.' We went shopping (I wasn't yet so lazy I wanted to stay 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 what we all want, isn't it? I wanted, oh, some kind of summing-up, I wanted my life 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 and the rest of the Man Utd players from the Munich air-crash.

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 them were very nice, on the whole, sort of natural, not at all grand or condescending. They were just like real people. I asked to meet Jesus C  hrist but t  hey said t  hey weren't su  re about t  hat so I didn't push it. I met Noah, but not surprisingly there was a bit of a language problem. Some people I just wanted to look at. Hitler, for instance, now there's a man I wouldn't shake the hand of, but they arranged that I could hide behind some bushes while he just walked past, in his nasty uniform.

`Oh.' `Heaven is de  mocratic t  hese days,' she said...` We don't i <sup> </sup> mpose Heave <sup> </sup> n on people a <sup> </sup> ny more,' she said. `We listen to their needs. If they want it, they can have it; if not, not. And then of course they get the sort of Heaven they want.' `And w<sup> </sup>hat sort do t<sup> </sup>hey want o<sup> </sup>n the whole?' ` Well, 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 bit defensively. '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 Margaret the following week.

- ` I know some people imagine 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 disabuse them.'

- `Are they annoyed?'

- `Mostly not. People pre  fer to get w  hat they w  ant rather t  han what t  hey deserve. And were they... disembodied?'

 - 'Yes indeed. That's what they wanted.

- `They don't take visits, I'm afraid. They used to. But the New He  aveners te  nded to be  have as if t  hey were at a f  reak-show, kept pointing and asking silly questions. So the Old He  aveners dec  lined to meet t  hem anymore. Then they began to die off.

`So. Well, I'm afraid - to answer your question - that the people who ask for death earliest are a bit like 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 believe their good luck at first, and then, a few hundred years later, they can't believe their bad luck.

Olympic gold medals began to feel like small change. I gave up sport. I went shopping seriously. I ate more creatures than had ever sailed on Noah's Ark. I drank every beer in the world and then some, became a wine connoisseur and despatched the finest vintages ever harvested; they ran out too soon. I met loads o  f famous peop  le. I had se  x with an i  ncreasing v  ariety of p  artners in an increasing variety of ways, but there are only so many partners and so many ways.

`So what's it all for? Why do we have Heaven? Why do we h  ave these d  reams of He  aven?'

`Perhaps because you need t <sup> </sup> hem,' she suggested. `Because you can't get by w  ithout the d  ream. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Характеристики концепта PARADISE:

- New paradise

- Playing golf, having sex and metting famous people

- Dream

- People have almost the same desires

- People prefer to get what they want rather than what they deserve

- No judgement

- Democratic Heaven

- An infinite number of possibilities

- Getting tired of freewill

 

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