is that
the devil is on the loose
Kurt Vonnegut.
Now that you know this, can someone go and address poverty, disease, racism, hunger, ignorance.
is that
the devil is on the loose
Kurt Vonnegut.
Now that you know this, can someone go and address poverty, disease, racism, hunger, ignorance.
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Step one: We need a really good fiddle player.
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Step two: we need dancers
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the devil is a much better fiddle player 😀
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I met Vonnegut at a bookstore in the early 90’s and got his autograph on a book of his called “The Sirens of Titan.” He smoked like a fire and kinda looked a bit devilish himself–kinda like a white, taller Yoda actually. He was rather pleasant, however and didn’t charge for his autograph which was nice.
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I think he must have smoked a lot. He writes about it in many places.
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Definitely.
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and a banjo player
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And a harpsichord too
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Contra dancers and a really good caller. No line dancers, and definitely no cloggers.
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Unfortunately, he was elected leader of this country almost four years ago! 😉 Naked hugs!
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I think the Angel of Light, God’s once Favorite, Lucifer Morningstar, would be horribly, divinely insulted by any relationship to The Thing in Washington. That venal, awful, ugly Thing.
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My exact thoughts
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Hahaha Roger. I am not sure the Devil would want to be associated with the orange one
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You’re absolutely right! I never considered that until reading your viewpoint! 🙂
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the Devil might think the Orange one too extreme
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I believe we ALL do! 😉
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Metaphorically he’s absolutely correct.
There was an important job to be done (addressing poverty, disease, racism, hunger, ignorance) and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
Isn’t the Devil the personification of Everybody, Anybody, Nobody and Somebody? Our collective non-action is far more harmful than all the deliberate harm that’s been done.
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Hello Barry, how nice to see you.
I love the way you have put it. It’s almost poetic! The job of everybody that nobody was concerned with.
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I remember reading a version of that story when I was about 14 or 15. It struck me so profoundly that ever since I stop for a moment each day to consider which part I took in the story. Too often it’s more than one role.
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Too often I think I am in the someone will do it role
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In high school our class (a very small class) was a personification of that attitude, and we wanted “let George do it” as our class motto. We almost got it, except for one vote. It would have summed up everything.
In a way, it still does.
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This used to happen a lot at home. If my folk said one of you should do A, B and C. Then it would most likely remain undone.
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