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
8 comments:
Papa is looking at that cat like he is going to have it for lunch.
Papa doing his best Foster Brooks imitation.
I wonder if that was the famous 6-toed cat.
I can't help it!..I just gotta have it...Don't turn your back on me Mr. Kitty!..You think you're so high qnd mighty..well don't ya!? DON'T YA!!??
Garfield and Jon, right before the end.
There's something incredibly sad about this picture and I can't really explain why it seems to have that effect on me.
I suddenly have the urge to hug my cat!
Papa and pussycat look eerily alike in this pic......!
it was the cat that revved up the angst in the story of the same name, wasn't it?
damn - he does look like foster brooks!
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