Sunday, July 14, 2002

And another one bites the dust. Four in one day now. This is craziness.
Bingle lake. Plaid clash dressing room fun. Visit to the Doctor's office. And don't forget Motivational Speaker Matt! Or pass-it-on kissing. OH no.
Reading before bed: Before the Holocaust Fades: What Happened to Uncle Schmeil? By Daniel Mendelsohn
The New York Times. "I realized I had been after the wrong story -- the story of how they had died rather than the one of how they had lived. If our instinct is to forsake the everyday and focus on vivid stories when we speak of the dead, it is because of a great distance: from a couple of generations away, you grasp at the legends' broad outlines, because the details are lost -- or have been destroyed. The particulars of the lives they led were, inevitably, bland: the kinds of unmemorable things that make up everyone's day-to-day existence. It is only when everyday existence ceases to exist, when knowing that you'll die in three months rather than tomorrow seems like ''security,'' that such lost details seem rare and beautiful."

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