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Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677). Water Colour 1987. Tomas
Brusell / Brusell Art.
My father
was reading the memoirs of general Lewenhaupt and found the general, who gave up the Swedish Army at Bender 1712, as neurotic as
himself.
My father has now passed 80 and its a good thing to have enough time for reading - one should
perhaps concentrate on
growing old?
When I meet the old guys of close families,
Svend Höst, Åke Cronvall and John Brusell I think they seem to be more
cultivated than ever, as well as playful and comfortable
absentminded.
It's good to see that there are thrilling aspects of aging.
In
Norway, the 90-year old Arne Naess is in the public eye, with his frequent
media appearances
and philosophical book publishing's in which he goes to Spinoza
and interprets him with the sharp eye of the falcon, finding the
functional, the elegant and humoristic philosophical intentions
It's fun to be one of many Norwegians who have read Arne Naess´ "Philosophy
of Life" and "the
free man" both books published in the end of the last
millennium.
Arne Naess
is
concerned with reinterpreting the Master of Thinking - Baruch
Spinoza, after many years of mountaineering in the mental company of
Ludvig Wittgenstein, once stuck on a barren rock, no way out!.
"Somehow I managed climb to safety".
The material body of Arne Naess is tired and old but the soul of his is soaring at the heights
of the Dalai Lama and other spirits of the living modern world.
Old Age might be interesting.
Tomas Brusell
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