Death, Evil and Non-being
“If we were able to live on the spot, our existence would no doubt be a good deal less agitated that it is. But to bite the present moment to the core, in the words of the poet Edward Thomas, would be to experience a kind of eternity. As Wittgenstein saw, eternity, if it is anywhere, must be here and now. And eternity is not for us. With humans, there is always more being where that came from. We are not-yet rather than a now. Our life is one of desire, which hollows our existence to the core.” (109)
I feel as though this “life of desire” could be lives that both the frelks and spacers live. Frelks living the life the of sexual desire, whereas the spacers live a life to desire to have an understanding, something more intellectual and emotional. And this idea of “eternity” is both the frelks and spacers having that desire never be fulfilled.
-Jay