Unless I'm already mentally or emotionally stirred up I find it difficult to start anything. Be it a rant, a conversation or a writing. I'm sure if I don't get bored or disillusioned I will have something interesting or controversial to say. I might even drop an occasional F bomb.
As this is my first outing, I will insert many random thoughts that clearly will lack continuity or proper linkage. I will sound like a mental patient or someone suffering from Alzheimer's. For instance, tomorrow is my birthday. I turn 55. Who cares, right? Why are we so self-absorbed with ourselves? I know from my POV I want to rule the world, be famous and shag any girl I desire. I also know, as I'm sure you do too, that that's just not going to happen...ever. But without these little dreams/daydreams I'd find it more difficult to crawl out of bed most mornings.
Random thought #2: How do people quote lines by famous writers as if they just read the story while we were conversing. Is it a memorization thing? Hours spent in front of a mirror quoting the Bard? Did they have a seance and converse with the Longfellow? I sometimes impress people when I drop a line or two from a movie or TV show, but never from any book or poem. And I consider myself well-read too. Then again I'm not too sure many girls are dropping their panties for guys quoting literature or lines from Monsters, Inc. or Saving Private Ryan.
I can capture attention by retelling a story or a joke or just ad-libbing and railing on someone or somthing, but I can't quote one word from Shakespeare, Whitman, Frost, Dickinson or King.
Yes, Stephen King. He's one of the greatest writers of the 20th/21st Century. I suppose the claim of greatness is like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Whatever the hell that means? I'm sure I just quoted somebody famous who wrote that a hundred years ago, but I haven't a clue who. I'm also sure some copywrite has just been infringed too.
Before the literary police comes knocking on my laptop I will end this nonsense now. Next post, I'll tackle the Rules of Driving in Philadelphia. They're not what you think.
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