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Re: Big Hairy News.
> I'm laughing too hard at your and Kevin's jabs. 'Didn't want to
> interrupt the flow.
But it's not just my & Kevin's conversation. We want to hear your views
& jabs, too. You've been too quiet lately. The Quiet Jon. What's the
deal? You wouldn't shut up when we hung out in Detroit! ;-)
> The self is where darkness lives and has the most control.
So, Pete's still battling inner demons. When you think about it, he's
still on that self-centered (in a good way) writing kick he began in the
mid '70s. But rather than be too narcissistic & explicit, his writing
continues to be centered around allegory & the use of a literary frame-
work - a story - to explore those inner feelings.
I can't say I comfortable with that. Why can't he come up with something
bare-bones & direct, with first-person honesty - along the lines of WHO BY
NUMBERS - rather than dressing up every idea in a murky storyline with
third-person allegory?
I should stop. I'm prejudging....
> He is fascinated by the power of that mirror and knows it should be
> smashed. Amazing.
And yet Pete continues to be fascinated with his own reflection. He may
be smashing the mirror & realizing a higher "spirituality," but, with him,
it seems like there's another mirror waiting around every corner.
"We run on endless time to reach a higher cloud / But we never ever seem
to get near it."
- SCHRADE in Akron
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -
that is why they invented hell.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)