It's not going well, is it?, says W. It's going badly, I agree. Worse than ever. But why does it surprise us? What did we expect? Some Kant-like resurgence, late in life? Some awakening from our dogmatic slumbers?
Worse than ever, never worse … We walk around in circles. We think in circles, which doesn't bother me as I'm a Hindu, W. says. – 'It's all circles for you, isn't it? Circles and cycles'. But it bothers him, W. says. As a Jew by lineage (his mother's family), as a Catholic by conversion (his father's), time, for him, is linear. It only goes one way! We've only got one chance, and barely that!
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