[b]Dave Eggers
The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.[/b]
Anyone here actually seen that happen?
The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do more. Or perhaps it’s that I survived to do more. I have a low opinion of this expression, "Hang in there.”
Okay, but, for all too many, that doesn’t make it go away.
Money is ephemeral, moving from person to person, it’s a tool. Don’t let it get into your heart or soul.
You know, after you’ve paid all the bills.
But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once–my father had six–and talked about escalators, indoor plumbing, and the various laws of the land, he did not warn us that I would be told by American teenagers that I should go back to Africa.
And that was before Trumpworld.
The one big surprise is that as it turns out, God is the sun. It makes sense, if you think about it. Why we didn’t see it sooner I cannot say. Every day the sun was right there burning, our and other planets hovering around it, always apologizing and we didn’t think it was God. Why would there be a God and also a sun? Of course God is the sun.
Of course in the Milky Way galaxy alone there are 100 billion of them. On the low end. And up to 400 billion on the high end. And over a trillion in Andromeda.
When I was very young I couldn’t watch anything black and white on TV because I knew the people moving were now dust.
How to react to that, right?