I'm a big Cormac McCarthy fan, so I really appreciated you linking the innate human pyromania with The Road.
Coincidentally I just read today the following by Cicero (On Old Age): comparing human life with a burning fire: "The death of young men seems to me like putting out a great fire with a deluge of water; but old men die like a fire going out because it has burnt down of its own nature without artificial means."
What can one say about fire? It is an ungraspable light and warmth that you can stare at for hours and sit quietly beside it, or it can become an unquenchable killing machine. I see why the human life (soul?) is compared to it.
Qué bonita frase de Cicerón, gracias por compartirla Uke. Y sí, las similitudes entre fuego y humanos son muchas. Me quedé pensando por un rato si existen otros sustantivos no orgánicos (es decir, que no sean animales o plantas u hongos, etc) que podrían ser comparados con humanos y no encontré muchos. Van los que se me ocurren de bote pronto:
I'm a big Cormac McCarthy fan, so I really appreciated you linking the innate human pyromania with The Road.
Coincidentally I just read today the following by Cicero (On Old Age): comparing human life with a burning fire: "The death of young men seems to me like putting out a great fire with a deluge of water; but old men die like a fire going out because it has burnt down of its own nature without artificial means."
What can one say about fire? It is an ungraspable light and warmth that you can stare at for hours and sit quietly beside it, or it can become an unquenchable killing machine. I see why the human life (soul?) is compared to it.
Btw not to mention Pentecost, etc.
Qué bonita frase de Cicerón, gracias por compartirla Uke. Y sí, las similitudes entre fuego y humanos son muchas. Me quedé pensando por un rato si existen otros sustantivos no orgánicos (es decir, que no sean animales o plantas u hongos, etc) que podrían ser comparados con humanos y no encontré muchos. Van los que se me ocurren de bote pronto:
1. Una casa
2. Una estrella
3. Un día