Death was a necessity that life might continue.
On the one hand, Orpheus embodies the ability of art, poetry, language—"rhetoric and music"—to triumph over death; the creative power of art allies itself with the creative power of love. On the other hand, the myth can symbolize the failure of art before the ultimate necessity, death.
Love is rare; physical necessity is common to all men and women; it is absurd to expect the growth of the one and the satisfaction of the other often to coincide.
Y.M. What is the sole impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing?
O.M. ...the necessity of contenting his own spirit and winning its approval.
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Will wars be fought over water?
Wars of this century will be about water.” This was a comment made in 1999 by Ismail Serageldin, former vice president of the World Bank. Most people will agree that the driving economic force behind today’s wars is oil. A war over water would be a hundred times worse. Gasoline is a luxury, water is a necessity. If there is one cause in the whole world that crosses all social, national, racial, and economic lines, it’s water.
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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last.
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