Painful QOTD

[randy_byers]

Randy Byers reports on “The Floating Worldcon” – mentioning Sharee, his lady friend, whose photo I printed in my Anticipation account (she is that memorable).

-- Guy Lillian, review of Banana Wings #40 in The Zine Dump #25

Sigh. Yeah, that's the problem! Goddamn memories!

Maybe I need to watch Porco Rosso again.

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Gave me a chuckle, that did.

It reminds me of this, source lost and probably paraphrased:

Man is the only animal for which existence is a problem to be solved.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

I recognize that quote -- gave me a chuckle too. And I prefer your paraphrase (which I just now misspelled as parapharse aka parafarce!) to the original:

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
-- Erich Fromm

But then I was glad to find a corrolary Fromm quote, which will no doubt drive Randy and me batshit (not that we're not already batshit):

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
-- Erich Fromm

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Fortunately there are different kinds of love!

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

More than there are kinds of snow, and almost as readily yellowed!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Well, memories turn yellow too, like photographs. Gives them that faraway nostalgic look.