[3476] in Humor
Fwd: WWJD: What Would Jenna Drink
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (South of Heaven)
Tue Jun 5 22:08:10 2001
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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:08:27 -0400
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FUNNY!!
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<http://www.bettybowers.com/jenna.html>http://www.bettybowers.com/jenna.html
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Here is a book which, if such a thing were possible, might restore our
appetite for the fundamental realities. The predominant note will seem one
of bitterness, and bitterness there is, to the full. But ther is also a
wild extravagance, a mad gaiety, a verve, a gusto, at times almost a
delirium. A continual oscillation between extremes, with bare stretches
that taste like brass and leave the full flavor of emptiness....For the
adventure which has brought the author to the spiritual endes of the earth
is the history of every artist who, in order to express himself, must
traverse the intangible gridirons of his imaginary world. The air pockets,
the alkali wastes, the crumbling monuments, the putrescent cadavers, the
crazy jig and maggot dance, all this forms a grand fresco of our epoch,
done with shattering phrases and loud, strident, hammer strokes.
- Anais Nin, Preface for H. Miller's Tropic of Cancer.
