Logicless Logic

life.

Been reading and perhaps gotten yet another valuable perspective to life. Book is Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz. The quotes are from Bobby Halloway, who isn't the main character but the main character's best friend. I don't think my own opinions on the extracts are needed. Just revel in their simple complexity.

[Bobby said, "She doesn't live her life in the beauty shop, doing someone's hair -- or in her house vacuuming the carpet. She lives her life between her ears, There's a world inside her skull, and probably way stranger and more bitchin' than you or I, with our shallow brain pans, can imagine. Six billion of us walking on the planet, six billion smaller worlds on a bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside -- some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me--we aren't so special, bro,"]

["We're not here to leave a mark, bro. Monuments, legacies, marks--that's where we always go wrong. We're here to revel in the world, to soak in the awesomeness of it, to enjoy the ride."]

The below extracts are conversations between Bobby and Christopher Snow, who is the main character.
["The world's maximum perfect as it is, beauty from horizon to horizon. Any mark any of us tries to leave-- hell it's only graffiti. Nothing can improve on the world we've been given. Any mark anyone leaves is no better than vandalism"

I(Christopher Snow) said, "The music of Mozart."

"Vandalism," Bobby said.

"The art of Michelangelo."

"Graffiti."

"Renoir."

"Graffiti."

"Bach, The Beatles."

"Aural graffiti."]

["These people can't get away with murder."

"Sure they can. People get away with murder all the time."

"Well, they shouldn't."

"I didn't say they should. I only said they do."

"You know Bobby, maybe life isn't just surf, sex, food and beer."

"I never said it was. I only said it should be."]

Such is life. Simple yet so hard to understand.

justin.

posted by justin @ 12:23 AM