The Life of Allistair

"What do you live for Allistair?"

Asked Blue Rat.

Allistair pondered...

"Rat....my life has been guided by three passions: desire for love, knowledge, and unfathomable sympathy for mankind's suffering. These impulses have blown me around like tremendous winds, across an ocean of sorrow, to the brink of despair.

I've hunted for Love because the bliss it brought me was is so intense that I would give everything for it. That horrible loneliness when one shivering awareness glances over the edge of the globe into the cold unfathomable dead abyss. I found it because in the union of love I saw a mystic microcosm of the paradise that saints and poets envisaged. This is what I wanted, and this is what I have found.

I pursued knowledge with similar zeal. I longed to know men's hearts. I've wondered why the stars glow. And I've attempted to grasp the Pythagorean power of number over flux. I have accomplished a bit, but not much.

Love and wisdom led to the sky as far as they could. But sympathy always pulled me down. My heart echoes with agony screams. Famine-stricken children, tormented victims, helpless elderly men burdening their sons, and a world of loneliness, hunger, and agony make a mockery of human existence. I want to help, yet I am powerless to do so. This is my life. I enjoyed it and would do it again if given the chance.”

Inspired by Bertrand Russell

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