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i'm reminded of that jimi hendrix tune "axis, bold as love"

and bowie's recent line, "at the centre of it all."

and Blake's line

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

and steve marriot's line

it's all too beautiful.

and george harrison's line

Watch out now, take care
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
While Weeping Atlas Cedars
They just want to grow, grow and grow
Beware of darkness

and the line in Titus

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.


:explode:

:lol:

:-D For all things are your's :-D
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2672 views: lots and lots of looky-loos :-D

So...anyways....um...erm...well...

I finally acquired the forth and final book of Pearce's that I had not read.

"Dying in the Sun" by Donn Pearce is his one and only non-fiction volume.

Published in 1974 the subject matter has some dating as far as specifics like statistical data on death rates and occupancies of retirement villages and such like information, but the subject is still relevant. (retiring too Florida and dying).

Florida has been called Gods waiting room, Which is a cute way of saying old people move here after retirement and wait to die, there's some truth there, but only partly. There's been many changes in forty years, for instance, motorcycles, there everywhere, and they are mostly ridden by gray beards or heads (if there is balding then bandana's are a requirement) and their old ladies, but do not call them old ladies you will likely get slapped in the face. :blush: . Sometime these pre-geriatric Viagra popping "don't call my old lady", "my old lady" roving band of 1960's defined them but now they love medicare rebels, travel in bands of like twenty bikes, they act like traffic cops. In their fat heads reside the past future of the world. On my home turf there is but one four way stop, there is no traffic signal, just a four way stop sign. Florida DMV regs state that you give the vehicle to your right the right of way at a four way intersection, the law makes sense and traffic rolls in a predestined order.
That is till you encounter one of these "I'm stuck in the sixties biker clubs that are out on a practice run for their next funeral procession. The lead tough guy will park his loud obnoxious hog smack in the middle of that fourway so that the remainder of them wrinkled but oh so self important cause we're on a poker run, but we are really just too fat, too stupid and way too fugly for the common good nimrods can all cruise through, I have a car load of groceries, I'm just trying to get them home to the fridge. I'm listening to Judas Priest's Defenders of the Faith, I want to scream at these weekend Rolex warriors for holding me up, but I smile around clenched teeth because I recognize one of the dynamos, I'm doing the work on his "yacht", :-D man that sucker is gonna pay, he'll pay in ways he ain't dreamed :chatsmilies_com_92:. Simple people really, people just "Liven the Dream" in a state designed for hyper fantasy.

There's no quotations at the beginning or end of the preceding paragraph, Its just my imagination.

The book, Dying in the Sun is unmistakably Donn Pearce, It is him writing from the POV of paramedics working the night shift in Miami, Nudists in south central Florida, shuffle board kings and queens in Ft. Lauderdale, a mortician who had a thriving business, plus some others I can not recall. The book wasn't cynical, it was factual about a place, time and the tragedy for some, of a lonely death.

The Golden Twilight Years, such a line can only really be applied to a much earlier generation, I mean who thinks in those terms anymore?
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Thought evoking stuff as usual T.

At work I occasionally meet a customer that I can't forget. One such customer was an "old lady", hard to guess her age but I'd say maybe up around the 80 or 90 range.

As she spoke it became evident that her mind was fast as lightning and her wit would leave you in the dust, her eyes were like sapphires and I rarely saw anyone so evidently full of life force, though I was seemingly five decades her junior she made me feel a little like an overweight sloth, though I am neither.

After the conversation was over I thought "oh, so you don't have to go the way the way they tell you" I mean she not only broke the mold she obliterated it! The only thing old about her was her body, her mind was making a megaton explosion look a little lacking in energy.

I still remember her.
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youkrst wrote:At work I occasionally meet a customer that I can't forget. One such customer was an "old lady", hard to guess her age but I'd say maybe up around the 80 or 90 range.As she spoke it became evident that her mind was fast as lightning and her wit would leave you in the dust, her eyes were like sapphires and I rarely saw anyone so evidently full of life force, though I was seemingly five decades her junior she made me feel a little like an overweight sloth, though I am neither.After the conversation was over I thought "oh, so you don't have to go the way the way they tell you" I mean she not only broke the mold she obliterated it! The only thing old about her was her body, her mind was making a megaton explosion look a little lacking in energy.I still remember her.
Thanks for the dose of positive energy! :clap:

Rereading my previous post I see that my thoughts were some what moribund in nature, that's my bad.

Perhaps I was thinking that I was mimicking in the style of the Donn, But I see that I was off, very off. Its the excitement of putting something out there, I get caught up in my own head.

I'm sad to say for me at least that there is no more, It is not likely that I shall see anymore published works by Donn Pearce, a genuine original.

I think that that is the reason for my delay in saving his only non-fiction for last. Though I cannot turn the page on the man, the limited work is done, the last page turned.

He told me that the writing was consuming, like a disease, the only cure was by writing more, by completing the thought. Its amazing to think of the consumption an individual brain can compel upon itself. His third book "Dying in the Sun" was about consumption, the consumption of death. Odd choice when I consider his three fictions, or is it? for in those, death was prominent also.

I think that if you can smile in the face of death, if you are lucky enough to do so, then the gaps in your teeth are full of bugs cause you're a smiling fool.

Seriously though, I am glade to admit that as far as the woman youkrst described, down here in "Gods Waiting Room" she's not so much the exception,and she is damn sure loved.
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