Re: Parodies and Writers (response to S:aI page 75/6)
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:50:51 -0700 (PDT)
I've always suffered from the crushing belief that the whole world was
plotting to ignore me.
/thor
>Department of Heavy Confessions:
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>It took me many years to confess this particular paranoia to a very good
>friend, who responded by confessing that he'd always secretly harboured the
>same paranoia.... For most of my life, I've believed that I'm seriously
>mentally-challenged, and that the entire world is engaged in a elaborate
>conspiracy to make me believe that I'm perfectly normal. You have to
>understand that this means that all of YOU are also thereby involved in the
>plot. It takes an awful lot of ingenuity, all over the world, and in some
>pretty unexpected places, to maintain the ruse....
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>Seymour truly had achieved (definitely NOT the proper verb) satori....
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> >That is from Seymour in "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," bottom of
> >page 75 & top of page 76 (Bantam paperback edition).
> > Please do yourself a HUGE favor and read the entire passage that
> >comes just before this. It is, by far, the most beautiful thing we have
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> >read. It has to do with scars on hands from touching certain people. (:
> >You'll thank us.
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> >Mirjam and Rick
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