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Bitter substances » sigismund

Posted by floatingbridge on September 27, 2011, at 14:53:44

In reply to Re: Carlos Gesualdo » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on September 27, 2011, at 2:33:02

You want bitter and liberating irony and I send music of redemption. Oh well. In the context of Gesualdo's life, redemption might be thought ironic. It was certainly worked for. I hope he won.

Why is there so much silence in the world? Yet so much flippin' noise.

I don't know what a nanny state is.

Power is a great aphrodisiac.

Can one be both a Puritan and a hedonist? I suppose I am the former now, living through my son's nearly unbridled
involvement in living. But he is beginning to catch on. I try to slow the process down a bit, that waking into the reigning social reality. Let him dream a little longer. Why hurry towards the inevitable? Let it come.

That is the definition of having grown up: pleasure takes work.

I have forgone coffee. Too much tea now.

Satre used to give me a stomach ache. Really. I used to read Camus. He loved his illiterate mother. He knew he was an irrational being. He felt uneasy with the existentialists that adopted him. There. The full and subjective extent of my knowledge of French philosophy.

I wish I had had that little video when I first taught. It was a backwater state school. The big insult was to say something or someone was gay. The almost equal insult was to call someone a pussy. All about who was the f*ck*d and who was the f*ck*r. I tried a direct dialog with the students to my own ridiculous failure. It was at that school that eagles formed within the essays.

Had I been skilled at questions, there might have been better results.


I dig a pony.

 

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