On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > >I have no desire to be alive hundreds of thousands of years from now - >The best thing would have been never to have been born, to quote Heine. >( >http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pommeren/Gedichte/HeineNachlese/morphine.htm >http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=19764&poem=195364 >) (For some reason, I have always found the words "Schluf" and "Tod" to be more amusing on a purely phonetic basis than "sleep" and "death". No doubt a bizarre linguistic artifact...) Ecclesiastes expressed the same sentiment (4:1-4:3) long before Heine, which is ironic given what that book is better known for. http://ebible.org/bible/web/Eccl.htm (or if you prefer, in German: http://www.bibel-online.net/buch/21.prediger/ ) We've seen that Dragaerans can get deeply depressed, but have they written any books or poems about it, I wonder?