When you don’t hear others, you don’t imagine them, they become unreal, and you are left in the wasteland of a world with only yourself in it, and that surely makes you starving, though you know not for what, if you have ceased to imagine others exist in any true deep way that matters.
Rebecca Solnit
read her entire essay here
you will not regret it
yes. that says it all.
ReplyDeleteThat seems about right. I love that it refers to The Fisherman and his Wife, one of my favorite fairy tales.
ReplyDeleteThat is such an excellent essay. She really captures the horrific essence of this man.
ReplyDeleteRead that earlier, and it's amazing.
ReplyDelete"He is the old fisherman’s wife who wished for everything and sooner or later he will end up with nothing."
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting the link to Rebecca Solnit's essay. Interesting how she names him only in the title of her essay and does not refer to him as "President" in the title. We have no president in the sense that we have had presidents throughout U.S. history. And what's worse is that those next in line when he self-destructs are no better. We are face to face with the shadow side of the the United States.
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
(James Baldwin)
Yes. She is really something.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking that essay.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from London.
She certainly captured well the man and the situation with her words.
ReplyDeleteI did regret reading it, in a way. It is amazing how one miserable person can screw up entire country, or even the world.
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