"I cannot count the times I cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best I can. We thought we were young and there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love."
-from What is the What, by Dave Eggers
Friday, November 26, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
We don't fear death, and neither should you.
"But the last thing I want to do tonight is depress you. So I have thought of something we can all do tonight which will be definitely upbeat. I think we can come up with a statement on which all Americans, Republican or Democrat, rich or poor, straight or gay, can agree, despite our country's being so tragically and ferociously divided.
The first universal American sentiment I came up with was "Sugar is sweet."
And there is certainly nothing new about a tragically and ferociously divided United States of America, and especially here in my native state of Indiana. When I was a kid here, this state had within its borders the national headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan, and the site of the last lynching of an African- American citizen north of the Mason-Dixon Line, Marion, I think.
[.....]
I asked Mark a while back what life was all about, since I didn't have a clue. He said, "Dad, we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." Whatever it is.
"Whatever it is." Not bad. That one could be a keeper.
And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don't already have one.
I myself just got a dog, and it's a new crossbreed. It's half French poodle and half Chinese shih tzu.
It's a shit-poo.
And I thank you for your attention, and I'm out of here."
--Kurt Vonnegut from his last speech, written for delivery at Clowes Hall, Indianapolis, April 27, 2007
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