The Trouble With Normal

My dear, sweet pal Kelly M forwarded this from NYC today. She and I are b-day twins with one rather insignificant difference. I was born 20 years before she was. Other than that we are practically the same person. Poor Jacques Genet is a fellow Sag (b. Decemebr 19) and apparently spent his entire life building walls around himself. I hope he found the love he was seeking before he died in 1986. Letting down the walls is one big drag. I'm trying, darn it.

Anyway, I like these lines quite a bit.

Kelly also sent this website which is a lot of fun:

www.revbilly.com

Be cool. Don't be afraid to be different!!!!!! The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.


"You must always have a secret plan. Everything depends on this: it is the only question. So as not to be conquered by the conquered territory in which you lead your life, so as not to feel the horrible weight of inertia wrecking your will and bending you to that ground, you must make secret plans without respite. Plan for adventure, plan for pleasure, plan for pandemonium, as you wish; but plan, lay plans constantly."

"And when you come to, on the steps of the presidential palace, in the green grass beside the highway, in your cell’s gloomy solitude, your secret plan finished or foiled, ask your comrades, ask your cellmates, ask the wind, the waves, the stars, the sea, ask everything that ponders, everything that wanders, everything that sings, everything that stings—ask them what time it is; and your comrades, your cellmates, the wind, the waves, the stars, the sea all will answer: “It is time for a new secret plan. So not to be the martyred slaves of routine, plan adventure, plan pleasure, plan pandemonium, as you wish; but plan, plan secretly and without respite.” -- Genet