Tragedy

Relating to the previous post, Mark told me about a TV programme he saw recently where a classics scholar brilliantly and succinctly explained the Greek concept of tragedy (in art, myth, theatre and culture). I hope I remember Mark's quote near enough:

'Tragedy is the inevitable consequence of attachment to any ideal.'

At the moment, as if something is in the air, I keep coming across examples from 'western' idioms of what I had previously seen historically only in 'eastern' cultures and in T'ai Chi practice. It's heartening.