I thought I understood it. But I didn’t. I knew the smudgeness of it. The eagerness of it. The Idea of it.
Take someone who doesn’t keep score,
who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he’s free —Rumi
Hemingway has his classic moment in “The Sun Also Rises” when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, “Gradually, then suddenly.” That’s how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you’re gonna live. —Prozac Nation
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Avi Buffalo-Where’s Your Dirty Mind
a tune for any down time
