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Well-being and ill-being reside in action, and the goal of life is an activity, not a quality.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Well-being and ill-being reside in action, and the goal of life is an activity, not a quality.
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. But Old Derby was a character now.