Revolutions hew the past to pieces and cast it into a cauldron, but what has emerged is the old Aeson with a new visage.
...I think there are two devices that have clearly had an enormous impact on language. One is television. I dont wish to blame television for all the faults of the world, but it has had a vulgarizing effect. The other is the telephone, because we dont write letters anymore. I dont write lettersI dont even write business letters. I call up on the telephone. When people dont write letters, language deteriorates.
Do you keep a journal?
I keep a workbook with stray pieces of paper with things written on them. A kind of mulch pile.
There are things about the Jewish religion that I carry with me to this day. Chief among them is Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, as it's so happily called. It had a profound effect on my innocent young mind. The service opens with the organ playing "Kol Nidre," one of the spookiest pieces of music ever written. You hear it and literally are surprised bats and shit aren't flying around.
We're in this strange age where we can't say I love you, at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.
Well I found that picture
Of you in that green dress.
Sure had a good time
Cleanin' up that mess.
He found thirty other pieces,
But he'll never find them all.
Tried to tape them back together.
Now he knows to keep them off the wall!
Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.
I dont want a broken heart; cause Ill lose all the pieces.
I had to pull about twenty pieces of broken glass out of my hand using tweezers and antiseptic cream. I'm never going to have a game of arm wrestling with Michael Howard again.
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