"I'm looking for my missin' piece, the missin' piece that won't increase..."
i know Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece was a sort of staple childhood thing -- like The Giving Tree -- that most people our age have encountered at least once before*. I hadn't seen it since i was probably about 9 or 10 but i just came across it now and i am blown away by how much information / wisdom is packed so elegantly in a three-minute read. of course it was always there; i think all good children's stories are like that, even when you are too young to explicitly grasp what stories are saying their messages sneak into your brain and nestle in the background of your young mind. it is amazing to go back and read these things with a [hopefully] more sophisticated mind and discover just exactly what it is that is so emotionally compelling about these childhood relics.
for the first few pages i was actually thinking "holy shit, this was really just all about sex..?" but then as it goes on it becomes about Love, Ways of Loving and ultimately the meaning of Personhood. It is absolutely beautiful and i love it for its simple brilliance.
*is this still even the case? i sure hope so.
for the first few pages i was actually thinking "holy shit, this was really just all about sex..?" but then as it goes on it becomes about Love, Ways of Loving and ultimately the meaning of Personhood. It is absolutely beautiful and i love it for its simple brilliance.
*is this still even the case? i sure hope so.