Hi! I've just spent about an hour reading what's in the site about Brahma, Shakta, etc... (names are so complicated) and I have come to this conclusion: There is so much to learn and so little time. I know it's one of the world's greatest cliches, but honestly I don't know how to phrase it otherwise! Besides, cliches sometimes tend to be indisputable truths...)

But the amount of things I would LOVE to know is so incomprehensively huge, that I think I shall never be bored again, or despair because life is meaningless. Suicide will definitely be out of the question, because even if I rationalize that the knowledge I gain is useless/purposeless, I'll be having such a great time that it'll be hard to let go.

On a slightly different subject, I've noticed that Schopenhauer said (or was this your phrasing?) that the person suitable to produce your children is seldom the person that best suits you. He has just confirmed the idea that there is a person suited to us. Wouldn't this mean that we don't "fall in love" for solely biological purposes? It implies that we need someone to fulfil some vacuum in our 'emotional' life (even if emotions were all hormone-controlled).

Write me back, if you have time, to refute on behalf of our dead genius.

I have a letter from "a friend" to one of the philosophers up your sleeve:

Dear philosopher,

I am in a state of profound depression.

Everyone that likes me has tried to snap me out of it, but so far no arguments they could offer have convinced me that life is worth living. I am on the verge of suicide, and am only writing to give life one last chance to stop me. I have no religious beliefs, only science guides me. If you can persuade me, my friends will be yours forever.

Signed,

Soon-to-be Lifeless of Villars

OK, so maybe this is too morbid, lacking the sentimental, soapy coat that Loveless' letter had, but I am only a beginner! Au revoir,

Renata

Note : we will use this letter as the basis of a future session. Please send any more letters to the DPS address and we will consider them too. The letter is fictional and does not represent Renata's real state of mind !! G.P.