Babies are Held; Another Member of the Cabal Is Dead.
1) i held a baby yesterday. Actually two babies. i was sure to be sitting down on a couch at the time, so as to mitigate the potential damage i could do to the baby if i had a seizure or some other affliction relieved me of consciousness. they were old enough to roll from stomach to back, and when they did i felt invigorated. it is a hard knock life, this one i lead.
2) Susan Sontag died yesterday, at 71, thereby improbably succumbing to the Big Sleep before fellow cabal member and serial monogamist-hater Saul Bellow. She wrote this in her latest work "Regarding the Pain of Others."
''To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism. It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment. . . . It assumes that everyone is a spectator. It suggests, perversely, unseriously, that there is no real suffering in the world. But it is absurd to identify the world with those zones in the well-off countries where people have the dubious privilege of being spectators, or of declining to be spectators, of other people's pain . . . consumers of news, who know nothing at first hand about war and massive injustice and terror. There are hundreds of millions of television watchers who are far from inured to what they see on television. They do not have the luxury of patronizing reality.''
All I know about Sontag is that she was the one who said communism is fascism with a human face, and that she directed Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo (didn't she?) Anyway - happy hunting.
3) thank you, God, for keeping all of the deleterious effects of my actions under cover and beyond the reach of short term memory, leaving me to continue to embrace hypocrisy without guilt, drink large amounts of wine in plastic cups during afternoon hours, and smoke cigarettes outside in my pajamas in front of the octogenarian neighbor. i will degrade myself even further without Your benevolent assistance/intervention, if you don't mind.
4) OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! THIS SURE IS FUN.
2) Susan Sontag died yesterday, at 71, thereby improbably succumbing to the Big Sleep before fellow cabal member and serial monogamist-hater Saul Bellow. She wrote this in her latest work "Regarding the Pain of Others."
''To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism. It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment. . . . It assumes that everyone is a spectator. It suggests, perversely, unseriously, that there is no real suffering in the world. But it is absurd to identify the world with those zones in the well-off countries where people have the dubious privilege of being spectators, or of declining to be spectators, of other people's pain . . . consumers of news, who know nothing at first hand about war and massive injustice and terror. There are hundreds of millions of television watchers who are far from inured to what they see on television. They do not have the luxury of patronizing reality.''
All I know about Sontag is that she was the one who said communism is fascism with a human face, and that she directed Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo (didn't she?) Anyway - happy hunting.
3) thank you, God, for keeping all of the deleterious effects of my actions under cover and beyond the reach of short term memory, leaving me to continue to embrace hypocrisy without guilt, drink large amounts of wine in plastic cups during afternoon hours, and smoke cigarettes outside in my pajamas in front of the octogenarian neighbor. i will degrade myself even further without Your benevolent assistance/intervention, if you don't mind.
4) OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! THIS SURE IS FUN.
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