Dealing with hell

El Cabrero just finished reading Interesting Times, the autobiography of the British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. In it, he quotes from a book titled Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, which has an interesting suggestion about how to deal with the hells humans create for themselves on earth:

There are two ways of enduring it. The first is what many find easy: accept hell and become part of it, until you no longer see that it is there. The second is risky and needs constant attention and learning: in the midst of hell to look for, and to know how to recognize what is not hell, to make it last, to give it space.

That sounds like a good plan to me.

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