"What I want to say is this: - If you logically try to persuade a person that there is no absolute reason for shedding tears, the person in question will cease weeping. That's self evident. Why, I should like to know, should such a person continue doing so?"

"If such were the usual course of things, life would be a very easy matter," replied Raskolnikoff.

- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Huh

Okay. I guess I'm ready now. No, no, that's incorrect. As my old bar buddy (it's like a war buddy, replete with dead soldiers vis a vis empty Kokanee bottles) Harry said when I would always announce that I was going to miss my next billiards shot "You need to think positive". Let me re-phrase myself: I am ready now.
I think it all started to come about with the hugging.
Frickin' touching. It's for hippies. Goddamn hippies.

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