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. . Clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society. the moment of change is the only poem. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. sex. in america it's an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact. what i couldn't say was that the real reason was so much deeper and harder and that we spend our lives deceiving ourselves of these real reasons, perhaps because when they are clear they are too painful. i discovered i scream the same way whether i'm about to be devoured by a great white or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. it's so sweet, i feel like my teeth are rotting when i listen to the radio. listening four or five times a day to newscasters and commentators, reading the morning papers and all the weeklies and monthlies  -  nowadays this is described as 'taking an interest in politics'. st. john of the cross would have called it indulgence in idle curiosity and the cultivation of disquietude for disquietude's sake. how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? if we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms. if any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after awhile, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up. to live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. it occurred to him that, for the first time since his birth, life had said yes to archie jones. not simply an 'ok' or 'you-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started', but a resounding affirmative. it is curious how silly, trivial things, sometimes for no apparent reason, become significant. at first you laugh at these things, you think they are of no importance, you go on and you feel that you haven't got the strength to stop yourself... and so it seems to me that if i die, i shall take part in life one way or another. to look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. at last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and then, to put it away. leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always the hours.....

. . Clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society. the moment of change is the only poem. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. sex. in america it's an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact. what i couldn't say was that the real reason was so much deeper and harder and that we spend our lives deceiving ourselves of these real reasons, perhaps because when they are clear they are too painful. i discovered i scream the same way whether i'm about to be devoured by a great white or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. it's so sweet, i feel like my teeth are rotting when i listen to the radio. listening four or five times a day to newscasters and commentators, reading the morning papers and all the weeklies and monthlies - nowadays this is described as 'taking an interest in politics'. st. john of the cross would have called it indulgence in idle curiosity and the cultivation of disquietude for disquietude's sake. how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? if we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms. if any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after awhile, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up. to live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. it occurred to him that, for the first time since his birth, life had said yes to archie jones. not simply an 'ok' or 'you-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started', but a resounding affirmative. it is curious how silly, trivial things, sometimes for no apparent reason, become significant. at first you laugh at these things, you think they are of no importance, you go on and you feel that you haven't got the strength to stop yourself... and so it seems to me that if i die, i shall take part in life one way or another. to look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. at last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and then, to put it away. leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always the hours.....

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