Lost In Time
Carolyn.
Everyone is insane to a point. Insanity and madness are necessary; they are the things that incite us to dream. Dreams give us something to wake up to and strive for in life, and what's life without a goal to work for?
Everyone is insane to a point. Insanity and madness are necessary; they are the things that incite us to dream. Dreams give us something to wake up to and strive for in life, and what's life without a goal to work for?
There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety - garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo. Inessential insanities get one in trouble with one’s self. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar… and is devoted to the inessential.
Tom Robbins
