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Yesterday Ken Kesey died
I picked up the new issue of MOUNTAIN GAZETTE and read the words of Gurney Norman from “THE NEW PROVINCIALS
“A community’s history is a story. It’s residents are the characters, what they do the plot, the theme, the action. There is no way that participation in a community story can be contrived. You can’t buy your way in. You can only live it.
A story has a setting. A story is a place. And this is a question: does jumping around from place to place, American mobility, produce chaos in the mind because the individual’s story-setting is never still? Localis interruptus; premature withdrawal; abandonment; loss; death?
Could it be that sanity is simply knowing what story you are in?”
when in doubt, go higher
walk good
david
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He left a big hole in our State.
JonC
*David, interesting idea. Like literature, styles of living change. Maybe people used to live novels, and now they live a collection of short stories. A result of living in the information age and a worldwide community. I don't know if you can consider the resulting diffences in people to be negative; they are just different.
*He said "I like being a famous author, the trouble is, I have to write a few books".....He lived his stories.....
*Please tell me what he wrote and what it was like. This is not an author that I know, but when I read the Norman quotation above, I immediately knew I wanted to read his stuff. That quotation really reverberates for me, because I feel that way about my life sometimes.And I appreciated Mike' response, because it immediately made me feel better that even if I'm not going to get to be in a novel, I at least am in a series of short stories.Thanks. This was a good way to start the day.
*Theodora, he wrote "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion"......He was not a prolific writer.....His famous road trip, hence the Merry Pranksters, prompted Tom Wolfe to write the "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"......He wrote about what he experienced.....Lots of fun reading, but not for the anti-drug crowd......He became, in his later life, an entirely different person than he was in the 60's......
*Oh, that's right, duh.I confess I haven't read it, but I will. I missed the 60's and I suppose I'm anti-drug, but I'm not anti-literature, so I'll read it over Christmas break. Thanks, Pi.
*That's ok, I haven't read Kesey in years.....Every once in a while I pull out Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar by Brautigan when I want a 70's fix!!I even pulled out Ascent of Man and couldn't read it.....I even read Mark Twain! I have forgotten so much good literature.....
*Brownowski and the Ascent!!!!!Those neckties!!!Oh I had forgotten. Those were the days! Who says we children of the 70's were deprived. I'm even remembering the music.Thanks, Pi.
*LOL....I just pulled it again.....Love the photographs!! I'm going to try it again.....
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Yesterday Ken Kesey died
I picked up the new issue of MOUNTAIN GAZETTE and read the words of Gurney Norman from "THE NEW PROVINCIALS
"A community's history is a story. It's residents are the characters, what they do the plot, the theme, the action. There is no way that participation in a community story can be contrived. You can't buy your way in. You can only live it.
A story has a setting. A story is a place. And this is a question: does jumping around from place to place, American mobility, produce chaos in the mind because the individual's story-setting is never still? Localis interruptus; premature withdrawal; abandonment; loss; death?
Could it be that sanity is simply knowing what story you are in?"
when in doubt, go higher
walk good
david