The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Email from David

No I don't think I wrote about her in my journal. I didn't want to because I don't trust the world with thoughts that I put down on paper. I kept it all in my head. It's safer there. 
And no you cannot ask her name. 
Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41 PM, David

The fear of having your thoughts read by someone else is the risk you have to take when you write them down. The reason I write in my journal is because thoughts contained inside my head are not safe there; I might forget. To me, it is this fear of forgetting that compels me to write. 
Can I ask her initials? 
Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Me

No you cannot ask her initials. ...
Maybe I'll tell you some time later.
Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:13 PM, David
Posted by at
Labels: , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment