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"Dear Self, I would so much like to write a letter, but to whom? So I guess I will write to you. How are you doing? No, really, I want to know..." (January 4th, 1995--a month and a half before Marty's cancer started being felt).

"It is quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with temporal life never being able to be properly understood..."

(Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2, Journals EE-KK, Princeton University Press, 2015, Journal JJ:167. 1843, P. 179).

"I'm not really a very funny guy, but if there's any chance of me being funny, it's just telling you who I am, because it's kind of funny" (circa May 2010--Mike Spiritfair Marty's IDEAS notebook).

About the Author

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I'm not a very good American. I want to know the truth. Facts are not the truth. Truth is meta-factual: an explanation of the data, an explanation of the facts. If one of the reasons European-Americans love Kant is because he started a practical movement that said all of the truth cannot be known, so we should only focus on facts that are useful, that's fine. Still, however, I have to deal with the reality that I am interested in the truth. I'm trying to be as successful as I can be in America, in life, without losing track of who I am and what my primary interest is.