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- what is your Favorite Quotation and why?
- "You are what you pretend to be, so, it might as well be something good." ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Why? Because Vonnegut saw through the shams and smokescreens of the human ego. He knew, in that slaughterhouse in Dresden, that death could come at any moment. Pretense IS reality, he posited, for it's the face that we show to others, and then see reflected back to us, that matters.
In this quote, I find a much needed up-date to the Golden Rule. When artifice has replaced art- as we find it so, today-
the artisan had better produce something wondrous and sublime or else give up his god-given creativity to the devilish vacuum of consumption.
I am pretending to be me. That's who I have always wanted to be. Not so bad.
Love & Peace with a splatter of Imagination on the side,
Mari
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Why Are So Many American Women Killing Themselves This Way?
BOSTON
Headline: Woman found dead on train tracks
(In tiny print, buried inside another Boston Globe story about a New Hampshire police officer who shot a driver to death- both were men, of course, thus deserving a 20 point boldface headline?)
"A Boston woman was found dead early yesterday on the commuter rail tracks near Highland Station in West Roxbury after apparently being struck by an inbound train Saturday evening, officials said. The woman, a 59-year-old resident of West Roxbury, was di… Continue
Headline: Woman found dead on train tracks
(In tiny print, buried inside another Boston Globe story about a New Hampshire police officer who shot a driver to death- both were men, of course, thus deserving a 20 point boldface headline?)
"A Boston woman was found dead early yesterday on the commuter rail tracks near Highland Station in West Roxbury after apparently being struck by an inbound train Saturday evening, officials said. The woman, a 59-year-old resident of West Roxbury, was di… Continue
Posted on July 20, 2009 at 3:42pm — 1 Comment
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