a lazy artist, a sci-fi geek (science not fantasy, so space ships not elves), a Pacers / Lions fan, a writer, a former journalist, an art collector, an investor, and all-around former bad ass who's grown soft and content.
As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life.
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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Posted on February 25th, 2010 under Books by Zenweezil