[scrap] The Interpretation of Murder

The Interpretation of Murder
by Jed Rubenfeld

" Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn-or worse, indifferende-cleaves to them, or they to it, so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man doesn´t look back. He doesn´t look ahead. He lives in the present.
But there´s the rub. The present never delivers one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them."