blessings
of being
twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three
is the conviction
that nothing like this
all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding
has ever happened
to anyone before.
A passage from Joan Didion's collection of essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem, with a feeling that I can relate to.
This is actually one of my favorite Joan Didion quotes, Sam. I wonder what would happen to it if we broke it up like the newsreels, interspersing other material from songs or headlines. How might these things change the message? Or enhance it?
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