Fragments of a Thing - art, prose, creative writing in philadelphia » extremes http://fragmentsofathing.com tiny bits of existence... somewhat reassembled Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:12:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Between Extremes http://fragmentsofathing.com/2010/02/between-extremes/ http://fragmentsofathing.com/2010/02/between-extremes/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:44:35 +0000 admin http://fragmentsofathing.com/?p=310 Sometimes when I don’t know what to write, I start off typing these 3 little words:
“Drugs, Sex, Violence”
I don’t know what that means.  I’m not sure if there’s a significance to the order, but that’s how it comes out.

Probably it’s an unconscious homage to Hunter Thompson, a man who made his life a testament to craziness and spontaneous behavior. And I don’t entirely understand why he’s a role model. I appreciate his priorities, but there seems something vaguely desperate in his fantastic lifestyle.  As if he felt that life on it’s own wasn’t really all that great, and required fantasy and fiction to make it interesting; at least tolerable.

And in the same way, I feel like there is something false behind these 3 words.  Something idealized.  Fantasized.  Hollow.  Can one bet their existence upon hallucination, hedonism, and death?  Or is this missing the point?

Maybe the whole thing is more subtle.  Like the really good stuff is in the space is somewhere between those extremes.

This is too bad.  ”Drugs, sex, violence” is easier to write.

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