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(Noon) Quotes:
Thomas Pynchon-"...if every poet were to vanish
tomorrow, society would live no longer than the quick memories and dead books of their
poetry."
"For a boy not getting any he had more woman problems than anybody he knew."
Julius Fast-"Body language is just that, a
language we all use and understand. But it is an unconscious language, and because of that
it is a very honest language."
"It was the woman in all cases who dictated, with body language, whether or not conversation should take place. The reason? The very fact that she was a woman."
(9pm) Another wild and crazy Saturday nite. (Ha.)
I got another rejection notice today on my book of poetry.
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(Noon) I decided to try putting an ad in the paper, to see if I can get some new tax business.
Quotes:
Furber-"There is some irony in the circumstance that we have an entire advertising industry deliberately exploiting envy-quo-greed by asserting the proposition that a man is what he owns."
"Greed affords little pleasure, jealousy only pain."
Eugene Kennedy-"Poets speak of having to
"learn to throw themselves away" if they are going to do anything but repeat
themselves. They must allow their previous adjustment to die, in a very real sense, in
order to reach the light."
"We must pause and be quiet to catch the point of our own stories, to grasp the reason we tell them in the first place."
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(6pm) Quotes:
Paula and Dick McDonald-"Every major religion has been controlled by men since its inception, and religions have played a strong part in shaping the societies around them. Much of our society's attitude toward women stems directly from religious influence."
Nath Brandon-"One of the common strategies employed in "brainwashing" is that of inculcating or provoking some form of quilt in the victim - on the premise that a quilt-ridden mind is less inclined to critical, independent judgement!"
(10pm) I played racquetball with Hunter (And lost again.), went swimming, and played zombie in the sauna. (At times like this, I can really fill the impact of cigs.)
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(6pm) As the courthouse turns: There sure have been a bunch of people getting engaged to be married there lately.
Today's poem: