Soundbyte Psychology

The illusion of limitlessness

by Jaya on Jul.22, 2010, under Web Posts

“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don’t know when it will arrive seems to take away the finiteness of life. It’s that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don’t know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of time, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
~Paul Bowles, “The Sheltering Sky”, Chapter XXIV

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2 comments for this entry:
  1. BMFD
    August 2nd, 2010 on 16:01

    Debra Winger was so hot in that movie…

  2. Jaya
    August 9th, 2010 on 23:07

    Mad thanks! I wouldn’t have even known there was a movie if you hadn’t mentioned that. The book is solid literature, with real moments of genius, but it’s definitely lacking. But it would make an AWESOME movie. That goes on my list.

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