Scorned and Beloved: Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics
We admire people who give rein to their passions and obsessions, who fly in the face of convention, who have easy access to an id unmeditated by a prissy, stultifying ego. We need them. You could say they have a societal utility. They shake up the old order. They remind us that our familiar priorities, whether personal or political, are arbitrary; the product of unthinking convention, and nothing more. We cherish these outsized characters because they amplify qualities we each of us possess in some small measure. And we love them because they give us stories. When all is said and done, it is stories that keep us buoyant.
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1 Comments:
Triad
I. God bless the CBC.
II. Scarf photos available here: http://www.golivewire.com/forums/imagebasket.cgi?album=47&member=2186
III: I think you are a person who would enjoy reading Jan Zwicky.
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