[lit-ideas] Re: surrealism
- From: jimkandjulieb@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:45:12 -0400
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From: aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 3:21 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: surrealism
<<Oppositionalist? Because I don't like television? >>
Sorry -- I guess I wasn't very clear. You (seemed to me) to imply that when
someone wanted you, urged you to see or read something it put you off. I'm a
bit like that. So is my husband. We say it's a trait of being oppositional.
Yes, learning about new stuff, like the ME, like science (subscribe to
NewScientist, Discovery, sometime) is fun but not escapist.
Sometimes people need a little ...... down time. Just laugh for the hell of it
time. My kids loved Bugs Life. I didn't see it. Tomorrow Jim is taking me to
the World Trade Center movie. Escapist enough for you? I admit to watching
Shrek or Chicago every time I'm so depressed by the real condition of the real
world that I don't want to wake up anymore.
Laughter is a good and healing thing. You don't get alot of that from
reading about the real condition of the world.
Julie Krueger
idealism and cynicism are flip sides, Janus like, of the same coin
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<< So I steeled myself and watched the television show and it was okay, so at
least I can say I watched it. >>
It's okay -- my husband and I are oppositionalists at hear too <g>.
<<I'm tired of making excuses for why I don't read and watch these things. Why
don't they read Morris Berman or Ron Suskind or truthout.org?>>
I do that too. But at some point a person needs a certain level of escapism or
I'd simply run screaming into the night. So I bounce around.
Julie Krueger
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Sent: 8/19/2006 9:27:05 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] surrealism
I just want to apprise all of you that re-reading Heinlein's Stranger in a
Strange Land and Irving's World According to Garp (both after a couple decades)
alternately/in tandem by flashlight while the electricity is out due to storms
is a mind-bending experience.
I'm going to sleep now for the day, having spent the night awake.
Thank God tomorrow (today?) is Sat and I don't have to do a damned thing but
grocery shop.
Julie Krueger
on the edge of dementia (why couldn't I have picked up Plato instead?)
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