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Trucks

In yesterday’s Times Patrick Healy wrote about Sam Shepard’s new play “Ages of the Moon” (a dreary title I have to say). But Mr. Healy quotes from “Ages of the Moon” and the quote is promising: “I carried her out by the highway, and we watched the cars and trucks sailing by, heading out to El Paso, south to Mexico, or limping into town with red dust from somewhere covering their windshields. We just stood there while they all floated by in every direction. One old man in a stake truck stopped, asked if we needed a ride. I told him no — we lived there.”

I’ve never been to El Paso, but “trucks sailing by, heading out to El Paso” sounds as romantic as the night train to Milan.

Mr. Shepard's quote is a benign reminder that only lost souls enjoy total liberty.


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According to many religious traditions, the lost soul cannot find liberty because it is unable to detach from an earthly matter, unable to move on. But that is in the life here-after of course. And maybe indeed, in the life here-and-now where all seems to be about moving and moving on, the ability to freeze in the midst of all that 'floating by' is in fact an expression of total liberty,...

Just wanted to say I hope your mother is recovering, if that's amongst the range of possibilities... And that you're in any case able to spend some good time with her.
said Annette Jansen 15/02/2010 02:15 • x
For once, I could not quite understand the meaning of your last entry.
(But Annette’s comment provided some help, and I join in with her last words)
said Bernard f 15/02/2010 10:48 • x
the lost soul of el paso
Where can you loose your soul in a proper way, not finding it back?

I know Marty Robbins lost his soul in El Paso because of his love for the Mexican maiden Felina. After a while he returns to pick it up, finds his soul, Felina has it, of course, but poor Marty loses his life the moment he touches Felina and his soul. Thanks though for letting him reincarnate as a country singer to warn us not to return to El Paso.
said Careca . 15/02/2010 20:49 (Updated 20:51) • x
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