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I am the Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE (Public Library of Science). My job is to try to motivate you to comment on the papers there. My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com

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Category: Clock Quotes
Posted on: April 11, 2008 3:56 AM, by Coturnix

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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O dear- what happened to my short & cogent response? None of the fluff-ups
suggested by this site occurred...and the entire world would * really * love to know my
take on happiness, reason, and joy...eh?

Posted by: Keri Hulme | April 11, 2008 7:19 AM

Happiness & reason do not combine (I love Ursula Le Guin's works, am a writer. and respect
that she is a much more experienced person/writer than myself.)As soon as you are a reasoning person, you realise the world is full of pain - unwarranted, frequently unearned, and almost always undeserved pain. That's just the way it is (ask an oyster.)Reason has no part in happiness.
Joy - is another matter. I suspect that the tui and rirerire singing their hearts out in my backyard know waayyy more about joy than I - or you- ever will. Kia ora - Keri

Posted by: Keri Hulme | April 11, 2008 7:46 AM

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