When my heart becomes implacable, callous, and unbending by
immersing in the harsh world of laws, regulations, money, banking, and finance,
I try to placate it by reading Will and Ariel Durnat's works. This time I came
across one of Will's greatest works, Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God, which is the distilled wisdom of an almost centenarian who spent
his life studying human behavior and civilizations.
The style of this work
reminded me of the Essays of Francis Bacon, which I read almost a decade ago,
and still I feel its long lasting impact in my mind. Both of these works have
at least two features in common, i.e., they are among the authors' latest
works, and are meant to be a very condensed synopsis of their views about a
very broad range of issues which has preoccupied the minds of self-conscious
human beings since the dawn of human civilization.
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