Quote of the week
[To] me, as to so many of my generation, the age-old question 'Why are
we here?' has ceased to be meaningful. It was meaningful once, when the
earth was God's theatre and man the tragic hero of a unique and
divinely conceived drama. But for a small animal bred we know not how on
a third-rate planet in a fourth-rate galaxy even to ask such questions
seems to me senseless; to offer confident answers, hybristic. [E.R.
Dodds, Missing Persons: An autobiography.
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