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externalization of life turns to incurable suffering, because no one can understand why he should suffer from himself. No one wonders at his insatiability, but regards it as his lawful right, never thinking that the one-sidedness of this psychic diet leads in the end to the gravest disturbances of equilibrium. That is the sickness of Western man, and he will not rest until he has infected the whole world with his greedy restlessness.

par 962 page 585

The most natural act for living beings which are complete is to produce other beings like themselves and thereby to participate as far as they may in the eternal and divine. - Aristotle

It is dangerous to leave one's country, but still more dangerous to go back to it...

James Joyce 1909

snapshot sentiments

all facts lead eventually to mysteries.

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Kentucky

Junior and his girl Linda were hot to get married; they drove to Tennessee and landed in Sneedville where the only Justice of the Peace they could find was working all day at a gas station. So the Justice preformed the service there. It seems appropriate since so much of the thoughts and actions of the male Cornetts involves automobiles that one of their clan family should be married in a gas station.

Bill (age 11) writes a letter to his girl friend telling her he loves her and signs it: "Peace, War. Love."

Myrtle Ave.-2AM-Sept 1972

One of the amazing things about violence in the street is the quickness with which it is unleashed and [illegible], leaving quiet in its wake.

Two cops are questioning a small wirey black man in front of the Shaft bar. In the door way three or four other blacks mill, people are shouting at each other. Two men come towards the cops arguing. Accusations are thrown back and forth, the cops have their suspect next to the prowl car; he's in the middle, one cop on each side. As the men from the bar approach yelling at them.