Got new apartment I've been dreamin' of ...
Hoping to feel "Hallelujah" moment when I leave here and go there on Monday!
politics, hypocrisy and meanness in public affairs, alligators, anti-empire-ism, occasional personal stuff
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"You can be sure.
"Not merely of marriage. This afternoon I wanted some cigarettes, but the thought of going to the drugstore turned me to jelly.
I am frightened when I am alone and I am frightened when I am with people. The only time I'm not frightened is when I'm with you. You'll have to be with me a great deal.
"I will.
"Do you want to?
"Yes.
"I will be under treatment a long time.
"I know that.
"And I'm not sure I'll ever change. Really change."
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"Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and think of nothing. Now in the thirty-first year of my dark pilgrimage on this earth and knowing less than I ever knew before ... and what people really fear is not that the bomb will fall but that the bomb will not fall - on this my thirtieth birthday, I know nothing and there is nothing to do but fall prey to desire." (The Moviegoer by Walker Percy)
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On this my sixty-third birthday I know nothing and there is nothing to do ....
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This is bin Laden’s lamentable victory: He has changed America’s psyche from one that saw violence as a regrettable-if-sometimes-necessary act into one that finds orgasmic euphoria in news of bloodshed. In other words, he’s helped drag us down into his sick nihilism by making us like too many other bellicose societies in history—the ones that aggressively cheer on killing, as long as it is the Bad Guy that is being killed.