[Buddha-l] Re: Republicans are Happier?

[Jim Peavler]

I'm sorry, but I rather like Earnest Hemingway. He and Gary Cooper  
once congratulated me on my performance in a ski race when I was just  
a boy. Many years later I learned that he was a famous writer and I  
read "The Old Man and the Sea". That (and a few hundred other books  
that loved enough to reread at least twice) influenced my becoming an  
English/history major and doomed me to a life of poverty -- but  
saving me from becoming a geology/  major, which would have doomed me  
to a life of poverty.

He was a master of English prose, and not the first writer who was  
captured by the word view resulting from service as a war journalist.  
He was, in spite of all his failings, a humanist writer of great  
power (at least over some of us).

That he was intelligent is, I guess, proven by the fact that he was  
unhappy.

He was not, so far as I know, a Buddhist. Then he could have been as  
happy as the average Buddhist I know, I bet.

On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:

> On Sunday 24 February 2008 11:49, Curt Steinmetz wrote:
>
>> "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
>> Ernest Hemingway ("The Garden of Eden", chapter 11)
>
> Why quote the words of a man who was neither?
>
> -- 
> Richard P. Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
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Jim Peavler
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