From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 18:18:27 MST
It's poetry, guys -- not a statement about the pros and cons of
life-extension.
Jack London's idea is that it is better to live an active and memorable
life, even one that entails great risk, than to live a boring and
unremarkable life.
JL's previous line catches his meaning best: "I would rather be a superb
meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent
planet."
I posted it in commemoration of the astronauts who lost their lives in a
superb meteor, every atom in magnificent glow, while most of the rest of us
sat here on our butts in front of our televisions like sleepy and permanent
planets.
-gts
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