Monday, November 24, 2008
The Dunlap Question
Item listed in an upcoming Sotheby's auction.
Item: a sheet of paper with the header, THE DUNLAP QUESTION, with typed questions and scribbled answers from F Scott Fitzgerald. (est: $8-$12K)
The basic question is followed by questions that refine the basic question and answer.
You make a quick survey of your whole life, remembering all your pains and all your pleasures, the humiliations and triumphs, the regrets and satisfactions, the miseries and the happiness. Then suppose you are compelled to make the following decision, with no alternative?
1. Live through your whole life again, just exactly as before, with no opportunity to better it by your present experience, or
2. Die instantly.
Which would you choose?
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Interesting question.
The person posing the questions: Gilbert Seldes
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I'm still pondering.
posted by Sal Towse at 4:04 PM|
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Item: a sheet of paper with the header, THE DUNLAP QUESTION, with typed questions and scribbled answers from F Scott Fitzgerald. (est: $8-$12K)
The basic question is followed by questions that refine the basic question and answer.
You make a quick survey of your whole life, remembering all your pains and all your pleasures, the humiliations and triumphs, the regrets and satisfactions, the miseries and the happiness. Then suppose you are compelled to make the following decision, with no alternative?
1. Live through your whole life again, just exactly as before, with no opportunity to better it by your present experience, or
2. Die instantly.
Which would you choose?
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Interesting question.
The person posing the questions: Gilbert Seldes
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I'm still pondering.
Labels: life, people, shopshopshop
posted by Sal Towse at 4:04 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
