Comments on: Quotable: Let The Great World Spin http://scottfreeman.info/2009/12/14/quotable-let-the-great-world-spin/ The Best Thoughts in Life are Free Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Deb Seaton http://scottfreeman.info/2009/12/14/quotable-let-the-great-world-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-11176 Deb Seaton Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:33:48 +0000 http://scottfreeman.info/?p=956#comment-11176 I don't think it's me being kind. You choose to look for that stuff. I don't. I just see what I see. I try to effect positive change where and when I can, but by and large it's wasted effort. I allow those failures to jade me, and it affects my world view. You don't suffer from that. Again, you would say it's an otherworldly influence. I just think it speaks to your mettle. I don’t think it’s me being kind. You choose to look for that stuff. I don’t. I just see what I see. I try to effect positive change where and when I can, but by and large it’s wasted effort. I allow those failures to jade me, and it affects my world view. You don’t suffer from that. Again, you would say it’s an otherworldly influence. I just think it speaks to your mettle.

]]> By: Scott http://scottfreeman.info/2009/12/14/quotable-let-the-great-world-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-11175 Scott Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:18:12 +0000 http://scottfreeman.info/?p=956#comment-11175 You are waaay too kind. I think we all fight that battle between the sacred and profane in our lives. Corrigan, in this novel, is a good microcosm of that. I will writing more on this book when I am done. You are waaay too kind. I think we all fight that battle between the sacred and profane in our lives. Corrigan, in this novel, is a good microcosm of that. I will writing more on this book when I am done.

]]> By: Deb Seaton http://scottfreeman.info/2009/12/14/quotable-let-the-great-world-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-11174 Deb Seaton Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:11:48 +0000 http://scottfreeman.info/?p=956#comment-11174 Scott, I am always reliant on this fact: you will find what is good and beautiful in the world. You would say that in my perceiving you thus, I "see God in you." I would say similar, except I would say "I see the god in you." Meaning, we are all capable of great good and great evil. You wish to be more than the sum of your parts, more than the nature of man's black heart. In that striving to be more than merely human, you achieve deification of your own. It's not another god I see in Scott. I see Scott's own godhood. Funny how perspective makes all the difference, no? Scott, I am always reliant on this fact: you will find what is good and beautiful in the world. You would say that in my perceiving you thus, I “see God in you.” I would say similar, except I would say “I see the god in you.”

Meaning, we are all capable of great good and great evil. You wish to be more than the sum of your parts, more than the nature of man’s black heart. In that striving to be more than merely human, you achieve deification of your own. It’s not another god I see in Scott. I see Scott’s own godhood.

Funny how perspective makes all the difference, no?

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