:: Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swinger's Club ::

:: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 ::

C2H5OH

Late last night I skimmed across the Richard Brautigan story, “Pacific Radio Fire". It's about a man whose best friend’s wife leaves him. The two of them go down to the beach with a bottle, and the friend cries. The narrator says, “We were both depressed. I didn’t know what he was going to do with the rest of his life, either.”

Empathy is a beautiful thing. I’m glad we have alcohol so that those of us who are romantic about the world have some way to suffer more, and so those of us who are not romantic about the world have some way to, however briefly, understand what the rest of the people are feeling.
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