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
10 comments:
In Sex Education terms (as defined here), the invention of the bikini was like discovering a new continent.
This pic was used in a show-biz column (which I now realize was studio-generated) in Eye magazine. This pic featured prominently in certain episodes in my fifteen-year-old brain.
Well, estiv, this pic is being featured prominently in multiple, absolutely delightful, episodes in my brain right now...
Just remembered--she later played the snotty middle-aged English neighbor on Mad About You. My inner fifteen-year-old was disillusioned...
I don't know Robert, it may be better than discovering a new continent.
I just discovered a continent...In My Pants!
woah! i'm just gonna sit here for awhile.
Golly gee, son!
I think I first saw her in "Danger UXB."
I remember her in To Sir With Love (as "Pamela Dare"), but Danger UXB was a great series (and I love her character name there, "Susan Mount").
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