Archive for May, 2007
I came across a quote today that catches my attention. I love quotes, can you tell? This one is from George Moore, an English philosopher.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
As a human, I love reality. It’s not perfect. Hell, it’s not even nice, but it’s ours. I realize that reality [...]
Why do people incessantly find ways to piss me off? I believe in a free society, where freedom of speech is paramount, but what is wrong with me that people need to find ways to bitch at me? It’s getting tiresome, dealing with all the immature high-school style “issues” that come up.
What happened to the [...]
I’m having one of those mornings. I’m sure you know what kind of morning I mean. Last night, at around 12:30am, my dad was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. He was having chest pains and indigestion, so you can imagine how rapidly the ambulance got here. I had the expectation that they’d keep [...]
The statement “what I wouldn’t give” made me think about the question “just what wouldn’t I give up?” I know that I wouldn’t give my life for anything. I don’t think I’d give my pen, either. I don’t think I’d give my books, my writing, my paper supply, or my idea mill. I probably wouldn’t [...]
Last night, I was watching The Queen, and something occurred to me. The power that the queen wields is an amazing thing. The people come to her after an election and ask her permission to form a government. She, as the movie aptly puts it, is the head of state, the sovereign of England. I [...]
Mythos
May 15, 2007 in commentary, writing
I’m in the process of writing the great American novel. I’m trying to get my thoughts together, and I hope to start officially writing it by the 21st of May, if not sooner. In beginning to do my preliminary research, I noticed just how deep the mythos descends into everyday life, and into the fiction [...]