The Ladder of His Own Descension
I watched a movie the other
evening called
“A Fortunate Man,” the son
of a stern Christian
clergyman in the
Netherlands, a rebellious youth
who refused to be
constrained by his faith, so
headstrong in his conviction
that I knew within
minutes of the movie that
he was climbing the
ladder of his own descension,
and it was only
time that took him down to the
basement of his
self-abasement, moving me to
pity at the hubris
of his genius when he refused
to bend with the
wind of opportunity, and
when the story came
to an end, I knew precisely
what was meant
by the proverb, “Fortune
favors fools.”
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