Write a Book

Enjoyment of life is inevitable. Until the very moment of death we can each take solace and support from the idea that, no matter what circumstances we find ourselves to be in, our state is temporary, and that there is surely something better in store further down the temporal line. We all exist in a state that constantly reacts to, and drives the creation of, external events. Like swimmers in a lake of quantum fire our bodies cast waves of energy outwards, and react to the energies reflected back to us.

A follower of a follower of Christ once accosted me outside of Chicago Lake Liquors on a warm and sunny summer afternoon.

"Do you know if your name is written in the Book Of Life?" She inquired pointedly.

"Do I know what?" I asked.

"I said, 'Do you know if your name is written in the Book Of Life?'." She quoted herself.

"I'm not sure what that question means." I replied. In my mind I could hear the massive oaken doorway to conversation she sought creaking open ominously as if on formidable and ancient hinges.

"Well, did you know that if your name is not written in the Book Of Life, that you will be cast into the Lake Of Eternal Fire?" She inquired with all the meekness of a jaguar crouched taughtly in preparation for the final murderous leap upon its unenlightened prey. Her hand tightly gripped a stack of Jack T. Chick pamphleture that flapped unceremoniously in the warm August breeze.

What I now realize is that, as Delmore Schwartz once theorized poetically, "Time is the fire in which we all burn." Tycho Brahe, alter ego of the esteemed Jerry Holkins, yesterday asserted that "We are being digested by an amoral universe" Both of these observations share a very dark inspiration at their root, that of living beings consumed, destroyed, or eaten by an uncaring process.

The process, however, is just, and only, that; a process. As Holkins observes it is, quite simply, amoral. The very judgment of believing amorality to be a 'bad thing' is quite simply a childish demonstration of total ignorance of the definition of the aforementioned term. Indeed one could also infer that such judgments show a lack of resolution in one's understanding of definition.

The truthful interpretation of Mr. Holkins, Mr. Schwartz, and my born again fundamentalist friend is that to exist as a consumer only, in this real and very present universe, is to burn in a lake of eternal fire. However, if one wishes to see their name inscribed eternally in the book of life then all that one need do is to pick up a tool or implement of some sort and create something new. Then share it with someone else, if joy it brings to them, then share it they will also.