Einstein loved the music of Mozart. Both these men shared the sense of the ultimate vulnerability of all life but never lost their sense of play or a ready laugh.
They knew that in this world the reality of life is that it need not be. Yet what we might learn from such men is that we too can celebrate our creative existence in the full awareness of its extinction.
And that is the essence of irony.

-- Heinz R. Pagels


What song was Lestat singing, alone in his dark cell, at the end of Memnoch the Devil ?
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The last minute and a half of Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer."



"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the kindliness of a heartless world,
the soul of soulless circumstance.
Religion is the opiate of the people."

-- Karl Marx