Thursday November 17, 2005

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:22 pm

All the King’s Men

LEAR:

Now you better do some thinkin’
then you’ll find
You got the only daddy
that’ll walk the line.

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FOOL:

I’ve always been different
with one foot over the line….
I’ve always been crazy
but it’s kept me from going insane.

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and last night’s winner of

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the National Book Award
for nonfiction, i.e.,
“all hard facts, all reality, with
no illusions and no fantasy.”

A Story That Works

“There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering their tales and always seeking the three miracles —
- that minds should really touch, or
- that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story, or (perhaps the same thing)
- that there should be a story that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with no illusions and no fantasy;
and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing, mortal me.”
— Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“