“Come to the edge.”
“We can’t. We’re afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can’t. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire
1880-1918 French poet & philosopher
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Herman Najoli
May 26, 2007
The edge is a place of new beginnings. It’s a place of fear and trepidation but it can also be a place of excitement and thrill. We fear teh edge because we fear the unknown. We like comfort. We enjoy what we have already tried and proved to be true. Let us go to the edge. Let us try the new. Let us soar and fly!
raincoaster
May 26, 2007
Amen. I can’t recall who said it, but there’s a great quote, “If you’re not busy growing, you’re busy dying.”
Jimmy
June 2, 2007
for school we are to apply this poem to Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea. For he doesn’t fear death. He is experienced, and old. He is aware of the edge, believes it, is willing to be thrown over. But he fights to avoid it at all costs. For got will raise him up and give him wings.
raincoaster
June 2, 2007
But Hemingway wasn’t a believer in God at all; he was an existentialist. He believed that the struggle itself was what we were for, and that a man was most a man in the throes of a crisis, that by dealing with such things successfully we justify our lives.
It’s a pretty brutal code, and few can measure up over their whole lives.