| Feb. 8th, 2008 @ 11:31 am Words of Wisdom |
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Now Feeling: concerned
"The life of modern man is haunted by this myth of narrative. We believe our lives are like books or films and that we are owed a concrete beginning, middle and end.... But of course, our lives are wretchedly free from narrative. We go nowhere. For every step forward that we take, we wander down a dead end or a blind alley. We stumble from day to day believing that the passage of time indicates movement. But it is simply another day."
"Imagine that before you even came into existence, the over was left on. Not a specific oven in a cattage in Wales ... but a cosmic, existential oven, the size of the Earth. Imagine that, all your life, you are unsure whether you should progress with earthly concerns or rush back into nothingness to turn off the oven. That is the Cosmic Oven Syndrome."
"I keep a tight grip on my personality. I constantly fear that I may become someone else."
"When I was a child, my parents would take me to the beach ... One time, they buried me up to my neck. Then they drove home. The tide came in, and if it weren't for the straws they'd placed in my nostrils, I would have drowned. They had strange ways of showing love. They tested me and tested me, and eventually I failed."
- excerpts from A Year in the Life of TheManWHoFellAsleep by Greg Stekelman
Every one of my friends wrote this book. I wrote this book. So all in it's not much of an accomplishment since I remain firm in my belief that we have all written this book, or could have if we'd bothered to consider it. And yet that is what makes it depressingly comforting. We all like to know that we are not alone, we all like the familiar strangeness of the inside of our own heads. |
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