Regulus: I am so awfully repressed, why would anyone want to be with me?
James: What you think I want isn’t what I really want, evidently.
Regulus: You can have someone whose body functions. Someone who isn’t—struggling like I am. Someone who’s—normal.
James: But I want you.
Regulus: You’ll get bored. Everyone eventually does.
James: So?
Regulus: So? Why would you want to put yourself through this?
James: Maybe I want to know what it’s like to love what ruins you. Maybe I hope the next thing I love kills me. I hope you do.
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Long Train Running
September 9, 1989. Saturday
Long Train Running.
Will some eyes read this 300 years hence? Or, are all our words and deeds herein destined for my eyes only?
I picked up a book which reflected a diary kept by a man in1660. He lived through a plague and a revolution. He spoke of spending a little on pleasure now, for, if you wait, you may grow too old to enjoy it.
Fred Small said today “We, in all our pain, in all that we care about, won’t be remembered in 100 years. I agreed verbally, but, somehow, know it not to be true.
For, every little step is important. As Alan Watts says “A fruit fly born and living a million years ago for a brief time was vital to the balance and to the puzzle of it all.”
We may not be recalled individually. In fact, who cares if we are? We will be long dead. But, the spirit of the effort, of the collective process, will still be living. And, that’s why each present building block is important.
"Time is the only thing that we all have the same amount of, so, it’s important to consider how we spend it.” Quote from ancient woman in ancient evening.
Quote from Graffiti board at Cask and Cleaver Bar “No matter where I go, there I am.”
I mentioned this to Fred Small, who left San Diego at 11pm last night arriving at Riverbank at 10am via bus and Amtrak train. He chuckled . It hit home. He kept saying today “It doesn’t matter where you go, people and situations are the same.. Just, in the case of San Diego, more of the same.
And, we had a good day together, book ended by silver trains guided into impatient stops by breathless winds and valley sighs. And, as the train lights moved off to meld into memory and endless track, the closure was loneliness.
He races away from what ails him. He will pass Donald DeCamp in Bakersfield on his way down. Another refugee from the embattled Public Defender’s office.
And, I stood there in the fading light. And I watched until he disappeared. And, I knew it was ok to go home.
End of this part of the entry
Note.
Fred Small and I were Deputy Public Defenders together in Modesto, California. In 1989, there were openings in the San Diego Public Defender’s office and at least two lawyers from our office, including Fred, got hired there. I decided not to apply to work in San Diego. Don De Camp also had been a lawyer in our Modesto office,. He left to become a deputy District Attorney in Bakersfield.
Apparently, Fred Small took the train up from San Diego to Riverbank station which is near Modesto, and returned to San Diego by train the same day. That is what I am describing in the above entry.
Alan Watts was a philosopher and writer who died in 1973
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Not leaving Tumblr any time soon, I love it here, but since the exodus seems to be happening on the hellsite, I will be trying to post more on Bluesky.
Again, I am not going anywhere on Tumblr so no pressure, just letting you all know!
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I'm not going anywhere. What is the point of being together if we don't stay through the hard times? What is the point of needing you if I just decide to walk away? It doesn't make sense, so I'm not going anywhere.
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got told at lunch "you feel like Tumblr Incarnate" and i had to tell them i've been here for 13 years and counting. i was here three years before dashcon happened. i saw the mishapocalypse. i survived the gigapause. i've been here longer than the shoelaces post. i've been here since it was hipsters versus fandom and i played both sides extensively by overdoing the sepia filters on everything and making my own flashing galaxy gif edits for my fandom posts. i'm every tumblr. it's all in me
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