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Open Poetry #4

Why we write

RobertB
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since 1999-09-26

Posts 1104
Champaign, IL

0 posted 1999-12-17 07:19 PM

"After the bare requisites to living and reproducing of himself, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do."

Miss Morgan's letter in Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

1 posted 1999-12-17 09:26 PM

I couldn't agree more.

RobertB
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since 1999-09-26

Posts 1104
Champaign, IL

2 posted 1999-12-17 09:43 PM

That was sure a good book!!

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