When you said only the heavens truly understood you,
That really no one around you knew you well.
What cheerful desolation: why not choose the whole universe over a mediocre world?
If you had felt as if your life had been a failure, Confucius,
That is why your words still continue to make music in our ears, even today.
Still a petty world, but the skies have never been so immense.
Perhaps Confucius doesn't want to commit the same error that Dagny Taggart did. Or Cherryl Brooks did. Couldn't a Dagny Taggart, after observing life on earth, turn into a Dominique Francon?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference between cultism and genuine fellowship?
ReplyDeleteThe answer is that I am not whatever you think I am. Leslie could have the same without reading Rand. How did a near-perfect man get what he did? Maybe we need to examine the rest of the world and what it did to him?
ReplyDeleteConfucius is a proper noun; can you explain in your own words what all the other proper nouns you mentioned mean?
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