Aloha Fellow Loner
Welcome Back
to
Our Stretch of Waikiki Beach!
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A crowd of cute Japanese tourist girls in their cute outfits.
"Every crowd has a silver lining. "
P.T. Barnum
"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be
miserable.
Like if you're in with the cool crowd,
you can't be happy."
Lenny Kravitz
"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths;
genius, never.
And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason,
is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. "
Cesare Lombroso
"I have never wished to cater to the crowd;
for what I know they do not approve,
and what they approve I do not know. "
Epicurus
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Did you read The Catcher in the Rye?
or
Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters?
Were you a lonely adolescent
in a strange world?
You probably heard that
J.D. Salinger,
the famous writer/recluse
died recently.
The "poet laureate" of the loner
was often chided
and wondered over
because he didn't play
the celebrity game.
He didn't pontificate,
nor push his opinions forward.
He just wanted to live,
and to write.
A recent piece by Lillian Ross
in the Feb 8, 2010 New Yorker
reflected on her long friendship
with the author.
I wanted to share a few of his remarks, which she remembers,
with you:
"I think I despise every school and college in the world,
but the one's with the best reputation first."
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"If your child likes - loves - you,
the very love he bears you
tears your heart out
about once a day
or once every other day."
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"No matter how he ( famous scholarly writer) stuffs his readers
with verbiage,
it never amounts to a core of truth."
"It takes me at least and hour to warm up
when I sit down to work (write). . .
Just taking off my own disguises
takes an hour or more."
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"There are no writers anymore.
Only book-selling louts and big mouths."
"God,
How I still love private readers.
It's what we all used to be."
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Yes, God bless us disguised loners,
Every One!
ALOHA, cloudia
Bonus:
"Writing, real writing, is done not from some seat of fussy moral judgment but with the eye and ear and heart; no American writer will ever have a more alert ear, a more attentive eye, or a more ardent heart than his."
Adam Gropnik
"Writing, real writing, is done not from some seat of fussy moral judgment but with the eye and ear and heart; no American writer will ever have a more alert ear, a more attentive eye, or a more ardent heart than his."
Adam Gropnik
