Embracing Dio

Day 890, 12:01 • Published in USA Canada • by Buck Roger


There was a time when I didn’t know at one moment how I would make it to the next. Yes, one can make war in this world, imitate love, torture one’s fellow man, posture in the papers, or merely speak evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, sometimes continuing, simply continuing, is a superhuman feat. And he was not superhuman, you can take my word for it. He uttered his agony and that’s why I love him, my friend, who died without knowing.

Unfortunately he left us alone, to carry on, whatever transpires, even when we are stuck in discomfort, knowing in our turn what we know, but incapable of doing what he did and of dying like him. One tries of course to wrestle something from his death. After all, it was a stroke of genius to tell us: “You are no joy to behold, that’s a fact!" . . .

But too many people now scale the cross merely to be seen from a distance, even if they have to trample him who has been there so long in the process. Too many people have decided to dispense with generosity in order to practice charity. Oh, the injustice, the injustice that has been done him, it rends my heart.

–Albert Camus, La Chute (1956)

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I am going to keep this simple.

(1) Life is short, and time is fleeting. There is none to be spent where you are not wanted, and I have been told enough times in the last few days that I am not wanted.
(2) By seeking political asylum in the USA, I can free myself of 90% of my eRepublik responsibilities, thus giving myself and Tina more time together or, indeed, time for more entertaining pursuits.
(3) Emerick is an icon, and for good reason. He played the game his way, without compromise. In loving memory of him, I wish to join S.E.E.S. if someone approves my citizenship.
(4) There is a benefit to the surplus of leadership in the USA. I need accept only the roles that I like. I will enjoy being a financier and a writer, the latter being the only source of real excitement I have ever derived from eRepublik.

yours, Buck Roger