#39: I walk straight lines. I walk through summer nights. I walk the silver rope of dreams. I walk through dawns of dawns. There's not a lot that isn't dying. I see people parading in front of each other like insect in a killing jar, watching each other die. I walk the straight lines through the Christ machines. Through the eyes of the throwaway people. Through the wards and the shores and the cracks in the skulls of the sidewalks. Through love's howling vacancy. I am the freedom soil. I dig my own grave. I resurrect myself every night. I am all things to myself. I walk the straight lines. I walk the spider's jailhouse. I walk the think line, the thin line, the white line and all the lines in between. I wish I could trade in my eyes.
Henry Rollins
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May 27, 2010
[*4 More Days*]
Pat leaves in four days... Its bittersweet. He's at MEPS right now, weighing in. I lost a day because of this, but as long as he leaves on Monday- I'm okay with it. [I guess]
Ahh... I'm a little stressed right now. Let's talk about something else.
The link I posted the other day came up in a convo I was having a with my sister. After reading the books that were on that list I was thinking things over. A really large percentage of those books, we read through out school.
Books we read in middle school(banned in libraries/schools):
Diary of a Young Girl, Scarlet Letter, Catcher in the Rye, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
Books we read in high school (banned in libraries/schools):
Grapes of Wrath, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies
And not to mention the books we performed in school plays or that are performed in public playhouses:
Oliver Twist, Les Misérables
How does that make sense? If my child(if I ever have one) likes to read, by all means- they will be able to read what ever they choose at the apprpriate age. I just don't understand how BOOKS can be banned for multiple/different reasons... when the movies and tv shows on TV RIGHT NOW, show children more than what a book can write about. ??
In other book news: I received in the mail my books I ordered from Amazon!! Yay!
I got Erich von Daniken's, Chariots of the Gods. The Words of Gandhi. And Henry Rollins' Black Coffee Blues. I'm excited, to say the least! :)
Ahh... I'm a little stressed right now. Let's talk about something else.
The link I posted the other day came up in a convo I was having a with my sister. After reading the books that were on that list I was thinking things over. A really large percentage of those books, we read through out school.
Books we read in middle school(banned in libraries/schools):
Diary of a Young Girl, Scarlet Letter, Catcher in the Rye, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
Books we read in high school (banned in libraries/schools):
Grapes of Wrath, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies
And not to mention the books we performed in school plays or that are performed in public playhouses:
Oliver Twist, Les Misérables
How does that make sense? If my child(if I ever have one) likes to read, by all means- they will be able to read what ever they choose at the apprpriate age. I just don't understand how BOOKS can be banned for multiple/different reasons... when the movies and tv shows on TV RIGHT NOW, show children more than what a book can write about. ??
In other book news: I received in the mail my books I ordered from Amazon!! Yay!
I got Erich von Daniken's, Chariots of the Gods. The Words of Gandhi. And Henry Rollins' Black Coffee Blues. I'm excited, to say the least! :)
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