Saturday, October 21, 2006
the rules
Happy birthday, about a week late, to blog and erstwhile childhood friend, DevraDoWrite. To judge by her posts, essays, thoughts and the events she's mentioned, it was an interesting and productive year. I wish all that and more for her for the next year. Recently she quoted A.S. Byatt from Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice.
The divide is not between the servants and the served, between the leisured and the workers, but between those who are interested in the world and its multiplicity of forms and forces, and those who merely subsist, worrying, or yawning... The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it.I also liked the several quotations about how important it is to dance - although she left out Emma Goldman's "If I can't dance, I won't be part of your revolution", supposedly delivered to Vladimir Lenin to remind him that joy must be part of life, no matter how intense or focused that life may be otherwise. Indeed, it's not always pleasant, this world of ours, and it sounds a bit rarefied, but joy, involvement and engaged interest are vital.
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