Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Another sleepless night where I can't do much more but read and sit on the internet. I did manage to finish Book I of The Stand (a giant weapon of a book that redeems itself by being intensely wonderful). I wanted to highlight some better quotes from the first portion (mind you I didn't exactly start paying attention to these until the very last few chapters of the first book):
"...love is what moves the world, I've always thought... it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl..."
- Jane Baker right before dying
"If you come back this way and renew your invitation to 'jine up,' Stu, I'll probably agree. That is the curse of the human race. Sociability. What Christ should have said was, 'Yea, verily, whenever two or three of you are gathered together, some other guy is going to get the living shit knocked out of him.' Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? I'll give it to you in a nutshell. Show me a man or woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society.' Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
- Glen Bateman
Just some things to think about.
- As Always -
Tucker