:-) smile because a smile is a curve that can set things straight
While not aged, I am old. While not pretty, I possess beauty. While not hopeless, I adore hope. But then, one can posses nothing, only borrow or share. In life, we are all renters.
- I love to write, to stir up my brain, my heart and perhaps my soul. The man and the Moon
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Catch 22
It’s the only book ever written that is both the funniest and saddest in the history of words. One second Yossarian is running for his life from Nurse Duckett, and before the tears of laughter have dried from your face he’s watching his friend die:
"I'm cold," Snowden whimpered. "I'm cold."
"There, there," Yossarian mumbled mechanically in a voice too low to be heard. "There, there."
Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
I'm cold," Snowden said. "I'm cold."
"There, there," said Yossarian. "There, there." He pulled the rip cord of Snowden's parachute and covered his body with the white nylon sheets.
"I'm cold."
"There, there."
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