The anti-Whack thread

[BillowOfZeal]

Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean......anyone who has taken the time to write a great Novel or Book of any sort for that matter. Any one in a situation siimilar to mine but have got off their lazy ass, unlike me, and went to college. i don't know why this just popped in my head but the kids who got together and made The Blair Witch Project (good or not). They did all the right things and with some effort now are living comfortable i am sure.

Emerson, for making me feel so damn good after only reading a couple pages of just about anything he has wrote. Jack Kerouac for writing On the Road which inspired me to read all the time, when i was 17. Albert Camus for writing the Stranger which when i finished the 1st time I just stared at my ceiling for ever, it seemed, with a feeling i had never felt, neither good or bad, alomst numb......
Jay

 

[E V I L]

Originally posted by leadfoot256
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean......anyone who has taken the time to write a great Novel or Book of any sort for that matter. Any one in a situation siimilar to mine but have got off their lazy ass, unlike me, and went to college. i don't know why this just popped in my head but the kids who got together and made The Blair Witch Project (good or not). They did all the right things and with some effort now are living comfortable i am sure.

Emerson, for making me feel so damn good after only reading a couple pages of just about anything he has wrote. Jack Kerouac for writing On the Road which inspired me to read all the time, when i was 17. Albert Camus for writing the Stranger which when i finished the 1st time I just stared at my ceiling for ever, it seemed, with a feeling i had never felt, neither good or bad, alomst numb......
Jay

I must say, your post inspires me. I agree much with satori about people being cynical. I'm very cynical. It takes much much more for me to love someone and lend a free and deliberate hand of respect than it does for me to hate and amplify every fault of another man. The same holds true of my own esteem. I'm extremely critical.

But I have forgotten that there's much to respect about a lot of people- especially those who have attempted to do something for civilization such as write a book and perchance impact someone else for as long as the book exists. That's a bit invigorating. (though books can do great damage in the world too, and are sometimes ill-conceived.)

Being a loving parent and doing everything that can possilby be done to show your children what's awesome about existence is beautiful too.

Still, it's nice to hold up a lantern, go in search of some goodness in this dark world, and then actually find it. There's much in this world that is good, but strangely it takes much more thought to uncover and appreciate doesn't it?

 

[E V I L]

btw, Albert Camus... nobel laureate....one of the more prominent *existentialist* writers.

I haven't read "The Stranger" but i have read excerpts of his "The myth of Sysiphus" Very delightful, but much more as a work of art- a specimen and analysans of humanity than a rigorous work of philosophy. Anyway....

 

[BillowOfZeal]

I agree, I think it may be hard to appreciate the positive and inspiring things in the world just as it is with the positive things in one's own life. People take many things for granted and focus on the negative and while working to change those things they lose appreciation for the positive.
Jay