pg. 358 "How do trite things get to be trite? Why is truth usually not just un-but-anti interesting?"
pg.369 Don Gately "..Trying to concentrate on receiving the message instead of brooding on that odd dark moment of aphasiac terror."
pg.369 "The thing is it has to be the truth to really go over here....it has to be the truth, unslanted unfortified. And maximally unironic."
pg.369 "All of them remember the coyly sincere, ironic, self presenting fortification they'd had to construct in order to carry on Out There."
pg. 374 "The Why of the disease is a labrynth it is strongly suggested all AAs boycott, inhabited as the maze is by the minotaurs (Why Me? and Why not?) aka self pity and denial."
Here is where I find Truth, capital T. I remember in the commencement address he also talked about how boring, unexcited truth can be. Is it because we are so-so hyper aware of everything now that we're too busy deconstructing everything to realize to Keep It Simple? Is it because the world has for a while now shifted from the dichotomy of Good and Evil to Cool and Lame? I dunno, I'm just trying to throw stuff out there. I would love to hear what you guys think.
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