"This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom." I hope I can get enough money to buy a new material item so I can be a slave to keeping it in tip-top shape. Fuck that. When you hope for something, you are either let down or you acquire it. In both situations you had to go out of your way to do something to get something so you can end up with something. If you had never hoped for anything, you would be free from going through the steps to get it. Even if this means not going after anything, not setting hopes or dreams for something, you are free to enjoy nothing. Free to fester in your own freedom from everything.
"This is the amazing miracle of death, and it should be so sweet if it were 't for, oh, that one." (35) I just like that quote.
Ivan,
ReplyDeleteThanks for getting this post in. I, too, like the sound of that second quote (just as I like a lot of the aphorisms throughout the book), but I'm not sure I understand them. What's miraculous about death? As for the freedom bit--it, too, is fun, but as I've noted in other comments, I wonder if it's really any more than a riff on that old Janis Joplin tune.