"What i thought i would do was
I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes”
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes”
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
No one is here for me.
I can not handle this anymore.
Brilliant American writer, Philip K. Dick (Dec. 16, 1928 - 1982), known by most only for his science-fiction work, is one of the most chilling and scary writers of the 20th C., simply because he has a way of deeply disturbing our sense of reality and our trust in the reality of the world, fictional or otherwise…
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups…So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
- from “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” (1978)
Yet I feel empty about it.
Ready to be done and start real life.
Fuck school.
While i was jogging I had a ~9 year old girl get off her bike in front of me, stop me from running, I take out my earphones and ask her what is the matter, it has to be some emergency that this girl would stop me.
She smiles at me and tells me Merry Christmas and gets on her bike and rides away. I mumble thank you as the magnitude of what just happens washes over me. There is something very special about someone you know is absolutely truthful telling you, a complete stranger, merry Christmas.
I wonder if that little girl knew how much it means and how much she did make my day with that one simple comment? And thats why children are awesome, they believe and mean everything they say, and they love this time of year so intently its infectious.
And that my friends, is why the world is sometimes a beautiful and special place.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
via www.crossfit.com
-love-
Saw this for the first time last night.
Good movie, he makes a damn fine drama, comedy…thing?
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Vincent Price Christmas
Vincent price Christmas - new SNL is awesome.
This shit is classic