[ExI] Eventbrite/Zoom addiction!

[William Flynn Wallace]

I checked it out and East of Eden is next on my list.  I don't know how to
characterize Tortilla Flat, nor Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.  Romantic,
certainly.  I think all of these are about love.  Doc standing in front of
the boiler holding flowers.  One of the boys breaking his arm and then
crying so Doc had to take the girl south for the sea creatures collections.

All the boys are rogues of a sort - picaroons at a certain low level -
thieves.  But you really can't find any sin in them.  You have to love them
even though the last thing in your mind is to be like any of them in
lifestyle (except Doc.), but they have moral lessons to teach us about love
and friendship.

bill w

 -   On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 1:04 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Eventbrite/Zoom addiction!
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> >…Spike, you just have a sunny disposition - you can't help it.  But you
> can change:  here's some ways:  …
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> I will sorrowfully provide more examples if you find that these just don't
> work for you.  bill w
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> Hi billw,
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> Irony: my favorite movies and literature are dark.  You already know an
> example of one.  Most of the books I recommend are ones people generally
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> The Steinbeck museum is near here, so I got talking to the guy who does
> the lectures, he realized I had read them all, so he asked which was my
> favorite.  I reported really liking Grapes of Wrath, but my favorite of all
> was East of Eden.  He was so surprised, he just doesn’t understand why
> otherwise sane people would like the dark stuff.  Oh well.  I also liked
> the comedies (Cannery Row trilogy (but then he pointed out those aren’t
> really comedies.))  I didn’t really find either Grapes or Eden novels dark,
> even though a lotta bad things happened to good people.  Life is that way.
> Life isn’t fair.  But life is good.  Good is better than fair.
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