### Highlights

To sit in judgment on what people do is a fool’s game. They’ll continue doing it regardless.

In a single instant, before Hanno summoned laughter back to himself, something tore apart and the Greek looked into a pain that bewildered him. “What else is life but always bidding farewell?”

At least, this is one school of thought. Others disagree, I am told. But we can hardly expect conventional respectability of a person whose goal in life is enlightenment.

If I have learned anything, it is that intelligence and knowledge are worth little by themselves. Failing the enlightenment that goes beyond words and the world, they serve mainly to provide us with wonderful reasons for doing what we intend to do regardless.