Bear with me: Ralph Walso Emerson • Non-Gaming • Books • Eurogamer.net

faux-C 5 Jan 2006 22:15:54 11,204 posts
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I'm in the middle of an essay (or 4) at the moment, and in midst of some of the reading on a completely non-gaming related topic, i happened across this quote:

"The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. “A man,” said Oliver Cromwell, “never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.” Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart."

Its from an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, but it applies quite nicely to gaming in our sense of the word, don'tcha think?

I'm not avoiding my work. at all.

p.s. the rest of the essay is here if you fancy it.

morriss 5 Jan 2006 22:27:15 71,293 posts
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Waldo

CerealKey 5 Jan 2006 22:28:24 2,860 posts
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Where?

morriss 5 Jan 2006 22:28:40 71,293 posts
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Deleted user 5 January 2006 22:30:51

The title keeps getting me excited as I think each time i see it it says Emma Watson.

Dammit.

morriss 5 Jan 2006 22:31:51 71,293 posts
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MGSfan wrote:

Fucking cunts!

Why?

Can you please stop swearing so much?

The smiley doesn't remove the swear words

Edited by morriss at 22:37:21 05-01-2006

CerealKey 5 Jan 2006 22:36:28 2,860 posts
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MGSfan wrote:
It's not Waldo, it's WALLY!

No, it's not.

faux-C 5 Jan 2006 22:36:54 11,204 posts
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look what happens when the location of the 'd' and the 's' is added to my being shattered from writing. oh dear

edit: also, Emma Watson? eh? I missing something

Edited by faux_carnation at 22:38:09 05-01-2006

AHiFi 5 Jan 2006 22:48:42 1,667 posts
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CerealKey wrote:

MGSfan wrote:
It's not Waldo, it's WALLY!

No, it's not.

Sarcasm, a correction or confused? The man's a genius!

Deleted user 5 January 2006 22:50:13

faux_carnation wrote:
edit: also, Emma Watson? eh? I missing something

It's just my dyslexia. Probably. If I had dyslexia.

faux-C 5 Jan 2006 22:50:30 11,204 posts
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AHiFi wrote:

CerealKey wrote:

MGSfan wrote:
It's not Waldo, it's WALLY!

No, it's not.

Sarcasm, a correction or confused? The man's a genius!

Isn't this just a bad joke about the fact that the Americans have "Where's Waldo?" and we have "Where's Wally?" ?

Shadrach 6 Jan 2006 00:02:47 1,878 posts
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Anyway, that quote was good eh?

'stay on target!'

faux-C 6 Jan 2006 00:10:01 11,204 posts
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cubbymore wrote:
The title keeps getting me excited as I think each time i see it it says Emma Watson.

Dammit.

ah.
oh.
i cracked ang googled your misreading, i was expecting pr0n or something, and i get...that girl from Harry Potter. i dont really know how to react now

Edited by faux_carnation at 00:11:10 06-01-2006