Rain pants and boots are at the ready, Jim says like a fireman.
Birches bend over the driveway.
And the last sentence of the writing day yesterday is, "Our drunk and morose hero is ready for an adventure, or at least another drink."
I think he should live in a little cabin in the woods with a barely adequate wood stove and a really ingenious cooking ability. And he won't be saying, "Fabulous!"
-Hero was a Greek priestess of Aphrodite, who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while swimming the Hellespont to visit her.
ReplyDelete-But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation
-If fabulous is good enough for Jack, it is good enough for me.
We will worship Aphrodite
ReplyDeleteShe's beautiful but flighty
She doesn't wear a nighty
But she's good enough for me
Paraphrase of the song, Old Time Religion
-According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam (aphros) arose Aphrodite.
ReplyDelete-hee-hee, ow, hee-hee, ow