It is folly to lament the passing of a man who made a career out of writing beautiful lamentations for his own eventual passing.
Diogenes, regarding the death of Leonard Cohen
In death, as in life, may he lead his people as first among equals, and so may his funeral surpass in squalor those of the many poor dead of his nation.”
Diogenes, regarding the death of Fidel Castro
Diogenes the Cynic spent most of his life challenging the social, political, and philosophic views of Ancient Greece, often residing in a barrel in the marketplace. Long thought to have been torn apart by a pack of wild dogs outside the walls of Corinth in 323 BCE, he had in fact fallen asleep in a pool of molten amber. Now, thanks to the miracle of modern science, he has been extracted, restored, and returned to us. Diogenes is busy catching up on both the contemporary scene as well as the last 2300 years of historical development. He occasionally sends us these notes from a cardboard box that he is living in, somewhere in the nation’s capital.
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