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Of my friends giving me a vintage sportscar...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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(since returning to the Kootenays I've had lots of strange dreams...)
I dreamed that a group of my friends (?? Who? I don't know...) had bought me a vintage sportscar, old, from the 50's, and I'm grateful for the gift but I don't want it, I don't need it, It will be too expensive to restore, and I'm at a farmers place - green farm with trees, somewhere north of Edmonton, the farmer, he's just dug up this car for me, it's been buried, 70 years almost, under 2 feet of soil, he's other vintage cars as well, all of them buried, under 2, 3, 4 feet of soil, and I'm expressing my dismay over the cost of restoration, how will I ever afford to get this working, running, and he's telling me that it's in great condition, almost started, just sputtering a bit, normal, given it's age...
What Matters
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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The daughter, conversations, the big bang, the extinction of the dinosaurs, ... our own, seemingly inevitable extinction, trying to find, distill some meaning from it all ...
What matters.
I don't know.
Or I do, I think I do at least, have an intuitive grasp of beauty and those smaller - and larger moments, all too often alone, it would be nice to share them, but it's seldom worth the risk, to apprehend beauty in the company of fools - well, it makes it ugly, it in some ways devalues it, better to find it on your own. Which then maybe is a separate post, on the nature of beauty, not merely the sum of harmonious colors, symmetries and shapes, but ...? How to describe? Mathematicians describe beauty as well, and it has none of those qualities, and certain words, languages, have to the ear the same quality, and so there's a more worthwhile thought I can return to.
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town... Charles Bukowski
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- Category: Books
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I didn't need this. I mean, a drinking buddy with an infinitely more entertaining sex life, which I put down to the fact that I haven't been drinking nearly as long and I'm a little bit more fussy...
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
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- Category: Film
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Not what I'd hoped, but a poor film by Terry Gilliam still beats a damned fine film by any other director...
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