December 2010
71 posts
“How it was a sickness; how anything which deviates from the norm or the average must be or make for sickness, for the norm and the average do not condone deviations and put all who deviate outside. This outsideness—for all one’s arrogance—does provide some little distortion or some anguish or some pain. This pain, this incompatibility, is part of sickness. As when one has even a...
“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
“Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny, little rocks.”