Carolina Quotes...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Tom Robbins Carolinian
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- Skinny Legs and All (1990)
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- 1990
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So this, then, is the chamber of the hootchy-kootch. Its bathtub full of orchids. Its closet full of smoke.
Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come. However, since Seafood Kabob is likely to win the Belmont Stakes before a psychic jailbreak of that magnitude materializes, my strategy is to try to live as if that day were already here.
Of course I've contradicted myself. I always do. Only cretins and logicians don't contradict themselves. And in their consistency, they contradict life.