How Cioran cites an ancient text
And I have this ancient text with Bibek Debroy’s acclaimed translation it would be torture to record it as all the names and places I could never pronounce correctly but here is my #1 thinker from Drawn & Quartered
Yet each time we envisage the future as a totality, the verdict of the Mahahharata (that’s how it’s spelled) invariably comes to mind: “ The knot of Destiny cannot be untied; nothing in this world is the result of our actions”
Which then makes me think of Lyndsay Anderson’s film IF which postulates how a bullet in the right place can change everything.
Yet each time we envisage the future as a totality, the verdict of the Mahahharata (that’s how it’s spelled) invariably comes to mind: “ The knot of Destiny cannot be untied; nothing in this world is the result of our actions”
Which then makes me think of Lyndsay Anderson’s film IF which postulates how a bullet in the right place can change everything.
46-50, M