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The discussion of proverbs and sayings on the Thursday before last (Book 10 can be all right, after all) got me thinking about the seemingly impossible magic trick that is seeing yourself. The paradox that is being at once the one who is familiar with every last detail, every last flaw, the keeper of every secret and the one who’ll never get to be outside looking in.
Knowledge requires being able to see from at least a few different angles. And that’s a limitation we simply cannot overcome when the subject is ourselves.
‘It’s difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame,’ as the proverb that set the thought in motion goes. If the frame is merely a situation, there’s always the hope that you might extricate yourself from it to gain objectivity. But if the frame is your very self, what then?
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Though not Irish, I think Adam Duritz qualifies as a sad boy. I’ve always liked the way he shapes his sadness into lyrics…
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A photograph from ages ago (12/79 - yikes!) finds its match in a key chain… (or would that be the other way around?)
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When I was 17, I skipped school and took the subway uptown from Chelsea hoping to buy a book, stand in line and get to see a man up close. It must’ve been a fairly important school day cause I remember sitting in on Ms. Fitt’s biology class 1st period. I stuck around for 2nd period, homeroom and then I was off in my torn jeans. Eager and ready to dodge whatever came after - armed with a fake note from home.
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Photograph by dietrich (FLICKR)
Photograph by Linus Gelber (FLICKR)
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