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“There
is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I
was in the car. And I was glad of it. Between one point on the map,
and another point on the map, there was the being alone in the car
in the rain. They say that you are not you except in terms of relation
to other people. If there weren’t any other people there wouldn’t
be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning
in relation to other people. That is a very comforting thought when
you are in the car in the rain at night alone, for then you aren’t
you, and not being you or anything, you can really lie back and get
some rest. It is a vacation from being you. There is only the flow
of the motor under your foot spinning that frail thread of sound out
of its metal gut like a spider, that filament, that nexus, which really
isn’t there, between the you which you have just left in one place
and the you which you will be when you get to the other place. You
ought to invite those two you’s to the same party some time. It would
be amusing to know what they would say to each other.”
Robert Penn Warren
From "All the King’s Men"
"15 Minutes of Separation"
- 9-21-2009 |
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