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A n a-M arie C o d in a Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. All kill their ii
ration and sing about the grief.
July 21, 1976

"You've got to choose between happiness
and what people used to call high art.
We've sacrificed high art." Pain was a fas­
cinating horror "Did you ever, feel as
though you had something inside you that
was only waiting for you to give it a chance
to come out? Some sort o f extra power
that you aren't using - you know, like all
the water that goes down the falls instead
o f through the turbines?" Major instru-
m ents o f social stability ("If one's different,
one's bound to be lonely."
-Aldous'Huxley

71. "The conventional symbol (such as the
nightingale, often associated with melan­
choly), even though it is recognized only
through agreement, is not a sign (like the
trafic light) because, again, it presumably
arouses deep feelings and is regarded as
possessing properties beyond what the eye
alone sees, (a dictionary of literary terms.)
72. A number of nightingales with traffic
lights tied to their legs flew past me.
Donald Barthelme

Achtung: Algae, Bird Target/ Lizard Breath/Salamander O'Hara, Mary Light, 1340 genius, Marry-
Me-Ella, Alex and the duck umbrella, Sticky, Salt Lake City Utah, the Dysfunctional Table, the
Groundlings and their Poster Child, the messiah/brat, the chiefs and the Indians, Voi, Nevy and
her Irish Lover, Ms. Congeniality, frog breath, brat, Mrs. Sunshine and the frustrated dentist
...Have a nice life and see you around.