http://www.theuneditedlife.com/2007/07/11/oceans-37/ There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ~ Robert A. Heinlein Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theuneditedlife.com/2007/07/11/oceans-37/comment-page-1/#comment-160 The Unedited Life Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:47:36 +0000 http://www.theuneditedlife.com/2007/07/11/oceans-37/#comment-160 [...] As you may or may not have noticed, I’m taking a page from my wife’s blog with the title of this post. I was prompted to write about it by a running email conversation with my dad over something in another recent post of mine. I recalled a conversation with my best friend Nate from many years ago, in which he said, “I have such a hard time wanting anything . . . mostly because we were always taught that the wanting itself was a problem . . . if we truly want anything, it must be bad for us to have.” [...] [...] As you may or may not have noticed, I’m taking a page from my wife’s blog with the title of this post. I was prompted to write about it by a running email conversation with my dad over something in another recent post of mine. I recalled a conversation with my best friend Nate from many years ago, in which he said, “I have such a hard time wanting anything . . . mostly because we were always taught that the wanting itself was a problem . . . if we truly want anything, it must be bad for us to have.” [...]

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