From this thread,
page 1, end of December 2015:
Do you think that essentially Sol is a bit like Schopenhauer in that he knows that ultimately human effort is fruitless and that Max is Nietzschean?
I get this feeling often. Without reading too much into the analogy, I sometimes feel like the Henry Fool to your Simon Grimm. That is, I sense you might aim to actually make something of your literary, philosophical, and mathematical musings, whereas I very strongly resist putting myself in a position to be poked with a stick by any slob with a pretense to taste or "knowledge".
Definitley no offense meant. I think you might be the more practical of us. This is not to say I am ashamed of my reluctance to try to be taken seriously by this Confederacy of Health
Nazis Police. I have mixed feelings, but I am noticing a desire to complete unfinished "projects" which I egotistically presume will be embraced by a future generation of mathematics students struggling to find clear explanations of what they may be inclined or forced to study.
It is humbling. If the gods (Fate) is with me (or the receivers), then it will be. If the oceans rise and it all gets buried by Forces Greater than my passions-Will, then so be it. I have worked on the mathematics and programming in order to motivate myself to continue to abstain from imbibing alcohol while assisting Maman with "enduring her existence" …
I probably have cheated death many times already, and I have prayed for death - yet here I am, a meat puppet who cares about and is cared about by his meat puppet mother.
If I live to be old, I'll most likely have that drink.