You cannot live endlessly thinking the people on the street are related to that madness".
Ugaki exemplified the unthinking militarism and the kamikaze spirit — indeed he became a kamikaze — of many Japanese career officers, while Kurita represented a more complicated type; he was a military leader unwilling to sacrifice lives endlessly in a hopeless enterprise.
All of us understand by now that we belong to a betwixt-and-between generation, which makes us responsible for the health needs not only of ourselves and our usually oblivious spouses but of our children and our aging parents, too, as the generation that preceded us lives endlessly on and on.
If we could live endlessly, the stages of our lives would display reduced connectedness, yet they could be continuous, which is a property that is important in the kind of survival most of us prize.
As in the village of Araouane, the townspeople in Abe's novel spend their lives endlessly shoveling -- a Sisyphean struggle to keep their homes from being buried.
In a city run by people who have spent their lives endlessly reënacting their election as class president, Rove was un-dull: he was the fabulist, boundary violator, autodidact, mean boy, schemer.
Along these lines, Nietzsche, himself a sometime advocate of one particularly challenging version of immortality (that we might relive our current lives endlessly, over and over, in exactly the same way) argued that we need "the active power of forgetting" just to flourish in the short life that we know we have.
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford live on endlessly on the stages of pubs and clubs with elaborate costumes and lip-syncing.
May it, like the mysteries of the universe, live on endlessly to tease us with the wonders of oblivion.
Or should we imagine that tall, skinny, weird old monster, prisoner in his compound, with nothing left to live for, endlessly replaying his own inevitable death as he commands his pixellated enemies onscreen, feeling the vicarious giddy rush of American cultural invincibility?
The playwright died 400 years ago Saturday, but remains the world's most famous writer, living on through endlessly reinterpreted plays and globally known characters, including the tormented prince Hamlet and the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet.
