Monthly Archives: April 2002

a second excerpt.

April 21 02

- excerpt from The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting, b/ Milan Kundera
On Two Kinds Of Laughter
To see the devil as a partisan of Evil and an angel as a warrior on the side of Good is to accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are of course more complicated than that.
Angels are partisans not [...]

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an excerpt from a book re-read too many times.

April 21 02

From: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera. Try it, you’ll like it…
“Laughter? Do people even care about laughter? I mean real laugher, beyond joking, mockery, ridicule. Laughter, an immense and delicious sensual pleasure, wholly sensual pleasure. . .
“I said to my sister, or she said to me, come over, shall [...]

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solitude

April 19 02

solitude is **so** undervalued in our world. tell me, who can’t appreciate the the late hours of the night, in the dark, just you and your thoughts, taking it all in? those are lovely moments. even when they’re incredibly sad, they’re lovely.
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you are commodified.

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