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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

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. . . I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me. ' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education. ' Employers sense in me a denial of their values. ' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.

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When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

Downward, Dunces, Fortuna, Life, Movie, Spins

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

Belong, Book, Christian, Religious, Sunday

So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.

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I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

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Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

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