Pragmatic Religion
a: Work ~
b: religion
What: "For many men, work is the effective religion, a ritual occupation and inflexible orientation which permits them to imagine that the problem of their personal death has been solved. Unamuno: 'Work is the only practical consolation for having been born.' My own chosen career - its dispersal and multiplication of the self through publication, its daily excretion of yet more words, the eventual reifying of those words into books - certainly is a practical consolation, a kind of bicycle which, if I were ever to stop pedaling, would dump me flat on my side. Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."
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Writer: John Updike
LCC: BL
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Date: Oct 18 2013 10:51 AM
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