Proposition 227 (was Re: NP Ebonics)

[Elainemmbell at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/21/2003 9:52:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Prsamsa at aol.com writes:

> Of course there's the world suicide wishers who think these are the end 
> times

As you all know I have a dead car, a bad credit rating and an increasingly 
painful lower left molar that needs to be deleted soon...so I think I'm in a 
position to say that endtimes dreaming ALWAYS feels best when your life is in 
a downturn.  When my car runs, my pockets have money and my teeth shine in a 
healthy smile I have no sympathy for doomsdayers or even hippies.  Everything 
is a matter of perspective.  And, speaking of war, here's something from 
David Guterson that sounds realistic to me:

"His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the 
time.  It seemed to him after the war that the world was thoroughly altered.  
It was not even a thing he could explain to anybody, why it was that 
everything was folly.  People appeared enormously foolish to him.  He 
understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings 
and liquids.  He had seen the insides of jaggedly ripped-open dead people.  
He knew, for instance, what brains looked like spilling out of somebody's 
head.  In the context of this, much of what went on in normal life seemed 
wholly and disturbingly ridiculous."

PS:  In my next life I shall either be or marry a dentist.  I shall either be 
or marry a mechanic.  I shall either be or marry a successful financier.  I 
shall either be or marry a hippie poet reprobate--oh wait, my mistake, that's 
THIS life!
Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
(860) 523-9225
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