"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self."
-Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919–8 February 1999)
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The Fabulous 5000
The Costume The Fall of 1992. My life was framed by the twinkling, lighted marquee of the Fabulous Fox Theater. I lived at The Ponce, a gran...
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Here I sit - nursing a scotch, looking out at the pink and orange reflection of the sunset on the mountain—pondering my solitary act of civi... -
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first t... -
There's a meadow in my perfect world Where wind dances the branches of a tree Casting leopard spots of light across the face ...
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