Dec 20, 2011

Some of those sentences . . .

I’m having trouble deciding whether I understand the world better now that I’m in my seventies than I did when I was younger, or whether I’m becoming more and more clueless every day. 
. . . 
What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day.
That is from this short and nicely written essay by Charles Simic.

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