How can I resist the urge to do a good deed! But what can I say? We have a tenous connection--I am your friend Ellie's dad--and an irregular follower of your odyssey. Do you know how intimidating you are? All that academic and pop and literary expertise, presented in civilized prose. I can imagine myself at a cocktail party, holding a martini,and listening with awe to you holding forth. Should I kiss her, I wonder, and what would she say, or do, as an unexpected moment of silence wraps itself around us.
I'm doing a good deed this afternoon, giving white blood cells for a 3yr old boy with Lukemia. So overcome am I with altruism today that I am compelled to also post on this cool blog.
"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation." - Montaigne
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How can I resist the urge to do a good deed! But what can I say? We have a tenous connection--I am your friend Ellie's dad--and an irregular follower of your odyssey. Do you know how intimidating you are? All that academic and pop and literary expertise, presented in civilized prose. I can imagine myself at a cocktail party, holding a martini,and listening with awe to you holding forth. Should I kiss her, I wonder, and what would she say, or do, as an unexpected moment of silence wraps itself around us.
Bert
I'm doing a good deed this afternoon, giving white blood cells for a 3yr old boy with Lukemia. So overcome am I with altruism today that I am compelled to also post on this cool blog.
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