My Life as a Clown

Now a former clown.
Aug 6 '09
bluenemesis: Always meant to read this… beenthinking: Morocco, 2006 “Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times… How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood… that is so deeply a part of your being you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps, twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”Paul Bowles’ novel The Sheltering Sky (quoted in Lyron’s terrific post.) So get up, keep going, keep going… He is right.  I have not watched Star Wars enough.  Life is too short.

bluenemesis:

Always meant to read this…

beenthinking:

Morocco, 2006


“Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times… How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood… that is so deeply a part of your being you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps, twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
Paul Bowles’ novel The Sheltering Sky

(quoted in Lyron’s terrific post.)

So get up, keep going, keep going…

He is right.  I have not watched Star Wars enough.  Life is too short.

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  1. keepinthesunlight reblogged this from beenthinking and added:
    I love morocco sooo much!
  2. mylifeasaclown reblogged this from bluenemesis and added:
    He is right. I have not watched Star Wars enough. Life is too short.
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