she only sleeps when it's raining

Oct 05, 2004 22:45

today is the 2nd day in a row that i have had no homework, and i am very pleased. because of this, i finished Different Seasons tonight. starting Four Past Midnight tomorrow.

stephen king wrote one of the best passages i have ever read. it's from "the body":

"Speech destroys the functions of love, I think-- that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer that you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm. Love isn't what these asshole poets like McKuen want you to think it is. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them. Take it from me. I've made my life from the words, and I know that it is so."

geeze, if that isn't true, i don't know what is.

stephen king

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