Re: columbine
bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:11:17 -0700
>i apologize for the fact that this has nothing to do with salinger...
god knows everything else is
>i don't think we are letting the shooting at columbine consume our lives...
i do.
maybe not CONSUME
but definitely play an enormous part as of late
i get email from my aunt in ca...to the whole family...what does she say?
"isn't what happened in colorado terrible? I just don't understand"
i have a substitute for my music class
"how about what happened in colorado? it's just awful"
almost every mailing list I'm on
"the massacre in columbine is a terrible thing"
>speaking as a high school student, it is not a small or pleasant thing to
>realize your own mortality.
it's a bad thing...wasn't it camus that said something like those who think
and worry about death are the weakest...something...maybe "those who are
always searching for the meaning of life can't enjoy it"
something like that
>obviously an incident like the one at columbine is not preventable, but it is
>a bit unsettling to suddenly feel unsafe in a place that you never felt was
>the least bit dangerous. of course it's going to be a topic of conversation.
but it's become a neverending topic of conversation and no one says anything new
>ease up.
i'll go into my stash of chill pills
---
"So you don't want to study? What can you do? What good are you?
What can you *do*? It has cost me thousands of dollars to raise
you, feed you, and clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the
street? Then what would you do?"
"Catch butterflies"
-- Charles Bukowski