Cigar Weekly

MM · 06-13-2007, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by shrink

Quote:

Originally Posted by MM

For some reason, extremely good cigars often make me melancholy: perhaps it is triggered by the thought of how this small thing in my hands, made lovingly and with great skill by an unknown master of his or her art, is slowly turned to ash and a memory. Or is it just the extravagance, and ultimate uselessness, of the act? I don't know.

This is the sadness that is inherent in all beauty, and happiness... it is emphemeral.

Yes indeed. Verweile doch, du bist so schön! But no: soon the fleeting moment is over. But the memory may be durable, and I will remember this CCE for a long time, perhaps exactly because of the sentiment it triggered.