Old Voices

This Monday morn, I'm cruising the web and come across this from William James (supreme pragmatist) - "nothing, is inherently true or false, either things work, or they don't." Also, this from Jean Paul Satre: "So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the 'burning marl.' Old wive's tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is other people!"

And this from the Notebooks of Lewis and Clark (glimpsing the long gone world of Crazy Horse, Black Elk, Sitting Bull): "I ascended to the top of the cut bluff this morning, from whence I had a most delightful view of the country, the whole of which except the valley formed by the Missouri is void of timber or underbrush, exposing to the first glance of the spectator immense herds of buffalo, elk, deer, and antelopes feeding in one common and boundless pasture."