Sunday, October 21, 2007
Yet in tracking the history of those dead faiths and dead eras, Quinn came to see that the way people clung to their ignorant beliefs was what shaped the conscience of their age. However dead those beliefs were now, they had once elevated men to heroism and bliss, reduced them to cowardice and sorrow.
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From the Preface to
William Kennedy's _Albany Trio_
which I fell into
again
Saturday night after picking up a copy
for a buck
at a book fair in Tarrytown...
This small act
led to one of those sweet Saturday nights
where I devoured too many pages
of too many books
and woke up still speaking
other men's languages. Still I keep wondering
when we learned
that preparing for life is more important
than doing life
and I'm tired, tired, tired
of that. Who can cook me
a nice apple pie
and slice it for me
and share a piece with me
and say fine things?
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