Tuesday, May 1, 2007

existential thought of the day

There's no such thing as larger than life. Everything that we could ever see, observe or experience is part of life, and no one is exempt. Including the straight-faced woman on the train, who isn't a straight-faced woman on a train at all, but a mother wondering if her daughter got the rest of the kids home okay tonight, and thinking about how she forgot to buy the cake for her son's birthday in two days, and how she'll have to work that into her schedule tomorrow. Oh, and here's her stop. Excuse me, sir.

A city isn't a city, per se. It's a group of individuals, just like me. Paris isn't the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. It's where he lives; where she works; where that man's business just failed; where that couple just got married; where that kid just got out of school.

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