"love is gone but war remains"
"Scene in one thousand movies: a party, formal stuffed-shirt party, NYC cocktail party, country club party, New Year's Eve party, hippie party -- any kind of party -- but with one common denominator of a failed festival, a collapsed and fragmented community. There is always the painfully perceived gap between what is and what might be. If there were such a device as a social-relationship indicator and one could quantify the relationship as what-is/what-might-be, most parties would register less than 5 percent. Hence the booze. Unlike the use of spirits in the past, the purpose of alcohol is not to celebrate the festival but to anesthetize the failure of the festival. The locus of the failure is the self. Richard Pryor: Why free-basing? Because it wipes out the self."
With love from Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos to Matt White and other proponents of intoxicated revelry.
With love from Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos to Matt White and other proponents of intoxicated revelry.