learning how to love
"There are going to be times,' says Kesey, "when we can't wait for somebody. Now you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place--then it won't make a damn." And nobody had to have it spelled out for them. Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus."
That's what Joey said to Cher and me when we went and visited him yesterday when we told him all we had learned... "You're on the bus." Things are just that much clearer. It's hard to explain, but when you're on it you know it.