Listen to the newborn infant's cry in the hour of birth - see the death struggles in the final hour - and then declare whether what begins and ends in this way can be intended to be enjoyment.

What is reflection? Simply to reflect on these two questions: How did I get into this and this and how do I get out of it again, how does it end?

Kierkegaard, quoted by Al Alvarez, 'The Savage God'