The Explanation
(for those who require one)
And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
6 comments:
Heh, Milton Berle…
It must have been about uncle Milty as a boy.
Milton Berle jokes never get old.
I know I've used that at least once before in an entry, but jokes about Milton Berle and his rumored, uhhh, euphemism are a solid staple of underground American culture . . . and what kind of blogger, I ask you, would I be were I to turn my back on tradition so blindly?
LOLOL... I have heard several times about how well endowed Milton Berle was,so the pic absolutely cracked me up, well the caption under it was the clincher,and considering who is in the picture.
" ...if you erase about this much of the tape ..."
Post a Comment