Fear and Trembling at Being 192 Years Old

Happy birthday, S�ren Kierkegaard! Of course, what does it matter if it's your birthday, since existence is largely meaningless and God hates us anyhow? Well, it matters because you're a very likable Lutheran, for one. For another, who can't appreciate a philosopher who was so widely hated by his countrymen that he was actually heckled in public - and who described that experience as "that slow death, being trampled to death by a flock of geese." Never has there been a better metaphor for the working life! (If you don't know anything about Kierkegaard, read this profile by some no-name novelist.)