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To: John Biddle who wrote (9818)	11/4/2002 7:24:43 PM
From: HG	Respond to of 13018

<<<"The moving finger . . ." passage seems to me to be a very well written way to say get on with your life, what's past is past, don't cry over spilled milk.>>> Ahh...see now i had originally interpreted it to be saying - be careful of what you say and do, for you can never undo what you've said and done... kinda look before you leap stuff... Seems we two interpreted it differently.... So what does Occam's rozor say about the differences between our interpretations - yours and mine ? Is yours simpler or mine ? :) I always found it hard to use the razor for discussions in unscientific contexts.....like your explanation and mine are not relatively easier or complicated...they're simply different... And we're assuming Walters tried very hard to complicate the meaning. Maybe that was the simplest explanation HE could come up with, since he was dealing with metaphysical stuff at the time with Paramhans Yogananda....who i think was an Indian monk of sorts <not sure though> and maybe the interpretation just HIT him like a bullet. In any case,its simply A version. Kinda like the lyrics of a song sung to different tunes by different artists. Walter's may be a Pavarotti version which not everyone likes. I know mine is the Britney Spears version ! LOL! I believe each interpretation holds a place in literature. My grandfather never liked Khayyam and Ghalib coz they talked so much about wine and women and he's always been so unable to get past that, that he could never take the philosophical messages of their work in. All may not be lost.....I'm thinking of sending him Walter's book.... :)

To: John Biddle who wrote (9818)	11/4/2002 8:12:24 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

These are among my favorites, from one of my favorite persian poets... - - Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When soul lies down in that grass, the world around you disappears into oblivian. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense. I'll meet you there. - - - - - - Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you. - Rumi