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"But one day, when you are sitting somewhere, alone in that crowd, and that awful feeling of displacedness comes over you, and really, as an ordinary person you are not well-equipped to look too far inward and set yourself aright, because being ordinary is already so taxing, and bring ordinary takes all you have out of you, and though the words "I must get away" do not actually pass across your lips, you make a leap from being that nice blob just sitting like a boob in your amniotic sac of the modern experience to being a person visiting heaps of death and ruin and feeling alive and inspired by it; to being a person lying on some faraway beach, your stilled body stinking and glistening in the sand, looking like something first forgotten, then remembered, then not important enough to go back for ..."
Jamaica Kincaid, A SMALL PLACE |
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Weehawker Thu Sep 21, 2006 03:06 UTC Dear Walker, Thank you for putting this album together! Do you mind answering some questions re: my return trip to Sicilia? I need some advice. How to contact you? Warmly, john mckenna, georgia, u.s.a. | la_beba Fri Jul 28, 2006 02:56 UTC Happy Birthday wherever you are!!!!!! hope you have a total blast!!! :o) | omran Wed Jul 28, 2004 20:45 UTC HAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU | conny_bazen Wed Jul 28, 2004 18:59 UTC Happy Birthday to you !! Greetz from the Netherlands..... |
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