— Jonathan Carroll
(Source: jonathancarroll.com)
2013/06/14
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Jonathan Carroll’s magnificent story collection, The Woman Who Married a Cloud, is nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for best short fiction collection.
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People don’t want things to make sense, although they always say they do. Know why? Because if things made sense we’d all be in trouble. You drive too fast down the street because it feels good or because you’re in a hurry. Now if things made sense, a cop would stop you every single time and give you a ticket. Now what happens if a cop *does* stop you? You get angry and say that’s not fair! Of course it’s fair. It also makes sense. But if life made sense we’d either behave ourselves a hell of a lot better or we’d be walking around scared, waiting to be punished for all the bad things we do every day. We want life to make sense only when it’s to our *advantage.* Otherwise, it’s interesting not knowing what’s coming next. Maybe you’ll get heads, maybe tails. People do wrong things all the time and get away with them. Good people get their necks broken. Would you prefer it if only the good people got rewarded? How often are you good? How often do you deserve the good *you* get? Wouldn’t you rather have an interesting life than a fair one?
— Jonathan Carroll
— Jonathan Carroll
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When anything truly important happens in your life, wherever you happen to be, find a stick in the immediate vicinity and write the occasion and date on it. Keep these sticks together, protect them. There shouldn’t be too many; sort through them every few years and separate the events that remain genuinely important from those that once were but are no longer. You know the difference.Throw the rest out. When you are very old, very sick, or sure there’s not much time left to live, put them together and burn them. The marriage of sticks.
— Jonathan Carroll
— Jonathan Carroll
(Source: jonathancarroll.com)
