“The objective of all of us is to live in a world in which nothing unpleasant can happen,” he wrote. “Our prime instinct is to go on indefinitely like the wax flowers on the mantelpiece. Insurance is the most easily understood geometry for calculating how to bring the thing about.”
Was this in a mass mailing? Insurance companies raise my blood pressure …..They certainly don’t ensure that “nothing unpleasant can happen.”
Geometry is not a method of calculation, it is a method of measuring. Of course, insurance companies know how to measure things. And personally, I don’t want to go on like wax flowers – I want to go on like South Park. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, but generally fun.
PS Had not realized he’s really a poet ……. Holy crap. I wouldn’t want to be a poet that wrote things that could be confused with junk mail. Clearly I was not a Lit/English major ……
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