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Arroyo High School El Monte, CA Steven Parent ~June 1969 Two months later he would be dead. |
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| the famous 1969 prom photo |
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Arroyo High School El Monte, CA Steven Parent ~June 1969 Two months later he would be dead. |
"Most likely to be in the wrong place at the wrong time"
ReplyDelete- as a victim yes, Parent probably as much/more so any others, Shea & Tate vying (though, separating the wholly innocent from the 6 degrees separation the rest cuts it close, my opine.)
Other end the spectrum, perpetrator also offers a nefarious candidate:
* a murder, a misappropriated car, a roadside the highway, a knife and a nap = Beusoleil.
Under the 'there but for the grace of linda' category a saladin nader-and that unknown person in the car at the stoplight escaped a similar destiny.
How many others eluded?
Under 'wishful thinking' category - had Charlie gone to high school can we not imagine him having been on if not the President of debate team?
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i'm going to kindly ask this- what are you saying?
ReplyDeletenice response, daniel. I second that emotion. I enjoy 1900's posts, but no disrespect, after I read them I can't decide if he is some sort of essenes existentialist or just really wasted.
ReplyDeleteI love it when they beg, a nod grim realization / self-indictment, with all due respect.
ReplyDeleteLet me kindly rejoinder, try too ease confliction, albeit bluntly.
A young student was assigned home work, namely to read a particular writers creative muse and to then report back narrative form his interpretation the writer.
The student was nonplussed - in over his head. So, he asked his father, "what do you think this writer is trying to say?"
The father gave it an half-hearted try before throwing up his hands exasperation, offering -"Jesus Christ! How the hell should I know what some stupid son of a bitch is trying to say!?!"
And so, the student did his best make his own interpretation. That student was yours truly - father was mine - and the writer was Ludwig Wittgenstein, generally regarded as a genius.
We might have wished Wittgenstein write down to us/our level of understanding as twere. In truth, be no need. Case of this example, I believe everyone can / will cast a singular judgement... no need to elaborate further.
I'm reminded of a line courtesy the Captain, 'Cool Hand Luke' -
"What we have here is a failure to communicate". Through trial and error, confluence was reached eventually, if not easily.
Otherwise, there is always the option resignation in the form Star Trek's Science Officer Mr. Spock -
"You may find 'having' is not as much as 'wanting' ". Whether you find it easier embrace a Mr. Spock's precursive caution or seek fuller understanding is up to you.
It is not as important some have not the capacity understand as that they try/continue to - which is to say a manner of speaking yours/others curiosity regards 1900 Yesterday - he is as Lays Potato Chip, blogdom.
We could take each paragraph and break each down one by one, into component parts, scarce internet paper & time the arbiter making said daunting.
I leave it to anyone as every.
Back to nominations "most likely to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time" - those 'happened upon' this missive mine in response to your furtive plea, same.
And the spokes on the wheel go round & round...
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I love how 1900 writes. Super-dense, like a thick, flourless brownie. The "special" kind, of course. it has a rhythym, a lyricism to it. It is not literal truth, but it tickles Patty's inner archetypes. Rock on, friend.
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