25 January 2022

Beers & Books CXCIX – Alessandro Baricco

 Read the flight of your arrow
if you want to know your future.

Alessandro Baricco
*25 January 1958

6 comments:

  1. I don't think I do want to know my future. What will be, will be.

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    1. Yes, sooner or later the arrow's flight will end.

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  2. More to that comment than meets the eye I think EC

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  3. The quote rather implies a belief in fate over freewill, for once the arrow has left the bow the archer's influence is done. I don't think anyone knows the truth about that proposition.

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    1. I think the truth is simply that the arrow's flight will end.

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