CarrollBlog 1.28
His business partner was handsome, sloppy. He knew everyone, even the waitresses in restaurants who beamed and began serious flirting the minute they saw him sitting at their table. I saw this happen several times at different places. I asked if he knew these women outside their work and he said no. He wore his heart on his sleeve but it worked and people cared about him, even when he was being impossible. He drove a Mercedes convertible that was always filthy both inside and out. Whenever you rode with him, he had to take stuff off the passenger's seat and throw it in the back. Sometimes you couldn't believe what was there-- a diaper, a jai alai xistera, an intimately autographed, badly wrinkled photo of a famous actress. He had beautiful handwriting and kept a detailed daily diary. His love life was always a disaster and we all wondered why no one ever loved him for very long.
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"All the splendor of distance and the unknown were in her voice."
Joseph Roth
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I GUESS YOU WON'T MIND
by Rumi
Great lions can find peace in a cage.
But we should only do that
as a last
resort.
So those bars I see that restrain your wings,
I guess you won't mind
if I pry them
open.