May 05, 2008 10:41
"I was thinking about the streets. The streets of a big city where so much is possible and so many things can happen to you."
the first thing that she learned about life and the first thing that her elders learned, dismayed, about her, was the joy of being alone
...because she worshiped joy she seldom laughed
i would like to worship joy
i should laugh less?
it would be more real
"she had a calm mouth and slightly widened eyes with the defiant, enraptured, solemnly and fearfully expectant look of a warrior who is entering a strange city and is not quite sure he is entering it as a warrior or a captive"
What are the masses but millions of dull, shrivelled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains?