The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
[Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms]
Today’s bit of “Gestures Toward a Theology of Sleep.”
“3. Bertrand Russell once said of Wittgenstein, “He says every morning he begins his work with hope, and every evening he ends in despair.” I’ve always wanted to know, what happened to him at night?”