Intro
Old Men and Amateurs
Mr. Roberts lived a long life between books and people. He tried to understand the link.
He wrote down his beliefs through poetry and prose. He noted others’ novels and reframed their quotes. He joined those quotes with his growing beliefs —then lost track as he fed on his own reflections.
Sigh.
To see for yourself, see his belief that The old man who will not laugh is a fool, in his poem:
Constellation / / We bathe our stars in light / until only the brightest ones shine / the others awash in dreams and fervor / that nights imbue in the young / cloaked in anonymity / high on what-might-be, / distrusted by the old / as we court sleep / knowing daylight comes / to disrobe the mirage / and fewer choices remain / to create a constellation / worth living.
Which he linked to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas “[On writing], I suspect it’s a bit like fucking — which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling.”
But where was the tie? In the weariness, the warning, the grin? He never knew.
We saw him last wandering through the connections.
"In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly." On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
"All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be." The Screwtape Letters
"We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find." How to Read and Why
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