“The world resists me and I resist the world.” — John Gardner, “The Song of Grendel”
It’s futile either way
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The Art of Tetman Callis Lit & Crit,The Granta Book of the American Short Story It’s futile either way
I was going to suggest a lunar colony, but even then we’d be in orbit.
We could approach it as a form of isometrics.
This quote was true of you in school-we are all more spicey now, how find you-brave insightful knight in your pursuit of incisiveness in your “knowing”? I find peace sometimes and real joy in the marvel and miracle of others-my kids, my friends, the wonder of how others give to you and …? You?
A person cannot reach middle age without having found some true sources of peace and joy. Somehow I was able to help raise me up a fine young man of a son. The woman I am married to is a marvel. When the writing goes well, it goes very well. The great number of my demons have been laid to rest. My wife and I live with several cats and they are extraordinary critters. Our neighborhood, in the middle of the city, has woodpeckers and roadrunners and quiet, retiring folk. I have a job, I do it reasonably well, it’s reasonably decent work, and I have a roof over my head and food on my table. I could go on and on, but I won’t