I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so
What I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are ...
2001-08-18 - 12:55 a.m.
Yesterday I said I was going to see Richard Shindell. I never made it. I was much too tired. It hurts me but I guess I sometimes have to take into account that I haven't been sleeping and I'm recovering from surgery. That might be a realistic viewpoint but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
I actually got my car back today. I told them I needed it by one so I could go to the doctor's, which was true. It seems that playing the sick card is the only way to get things done at the Chrysler dealership. I will wager anything that they didn't really inspect my car other than the emissions test. I still have to go back there to get them to finish off fixing my rear defroster. I've been waiting a month for them to get a relay it needs. I paid for the repair already so they better get this done.
Tonight I saw the Gorilla Rep's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I see this every year, usually more than once. It is my favourite Shakespeare production. They perform it in Washington Square Park. They do not use a stage and there are no seats. It is what they call Environmental Theatre. They use the park as their stage and when the scene changes they move to a different part of the park and the audience follows them. If you don't find Shakespeare's Comedies funny check them out, you will laugh, I guarantee it. Every year I try to bring new people in to see it and other productions of theirs. If you live near New York you must check them out. MSND is playing through September 9th. Tonight I'll send out my letter to my friends in the area suggesting that they go.
I was thinking today that my love for the Gorilla rep is in keeping with my taste in musical venues. I prefer to see the less popular acts in intimate setting to seeing stars play Arenas let alone Stadia. I crave the immediacy of a small venue. Being able to feel I'm interacting directly with the performer.
The idea carries over somewhat to shopping too. I tend to not like huge stores. I prefer the smaller ones where you can actually talk to the owner. Of course there are exceptions, I love the Strand, the world's largest used bookstore. But I'll take East Village Books over any Barnes and Noble. I buy my CDs at small shops, never at the Virgin Megastore. I like the smaller less flashy downtown Jekyll & Hyde to its huge uptown sister restaurant.
You might guess from this that I prefer small towns to big cities but that is wrong. I love New York, no place else compares to it. Small towns tend to be dominated by the big chains that I hate. Wal-Mart and the like don't own New York or other big cities they way the own the rest of the country. It is paradoxical but there are more of the smaller venues in the big city than in the small towns. It takes a large population to support a small quirky business.
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