Aristotle recommends a middle way, in the Nichomachean Ethics. I'm too tired to find the book on my shelves to read what the way is about again but will go on here - my fingers are less tired - in search of it. Lots of people recommend a middle way, or they write it.
Hannes Böhringer is a thinker I like who writes it. I am name-dropping tonight. A foreign name counts here as a dropped one, I think. In his book Auf der Suche nach Einfacheit (Looking for Simplicity) - I am showing off now, one can overdo simplicity, showing off a little sometimes is perhaps part of a middle way - Böhringer, who cannot walk without a stick, manages at one point to thread his middle way through the maelström in Edgar Allan Poe's story 'A Descent into the Maelström'. But I better end quickly as my reader is, I sense, at risk of leaving me before I leave her or him.
Quickly and I will award myself a glass of wine uncorked two weeks ago!
Might the quiet corner of the office, about which I wrote yesterday, be a middle way through a
(To be continued, hopefully)
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