Following The Green Light At Gatsby's Pier
"We are saving ourselves through the words," says Eleanor, the leading lady of this novel-in-progress. At Post No. 500, this exploration into the creative process -- which includes plenty of distractions/tangents /thoughts & rants by Eleanor, her Biographer and selected guest artists -- is complete. We aren't sure what happens after Post No. 500, and we dare not jump ahead of ourselves.
There will be the occasional typo (as Eleanor points out), and much of this is intended to be "original draft" -- what comes out of our mouths (heads) first, and then set down in that order. Not all of it will be included in the novel, but all of it is happening in real time.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Eleanor says, "Oblivious is bliss."
Eleanor says, "How oblivious we can be, in our little teeny tiny worlds, our waking life, when we leave the one we love and go to the office or to school or wherever, without even once wondering what’s happening back home, and if we could anticipate an emergency, wouldn’t we have stayed home in the first place, but then again, what really constitutes an emergency – illness, death, a mental breakdown? Perhaps death should be last in this list, but a mental breakdown, or whatever you want to call it, is worse than death, or it can be, can’t it? I mean, how oblivious we can be, in our small worlds, after all. Really. I mean, oblivious is nowhere close to ignorant. Nobody ever says, being oblivious is bliss. It would make a good rhyme, though. No school kid would forget it. Oblivious is bliss, and you never have to feel pain, or hurt. You never have to feel anything, really. That’s the beauty of little teeny tiny worlds. Feelings are left in orbit somewhere. Ground level, it’s all good. It’s a grand place to be, to exist here, ground level. Yes, yes - yes! Oblivious is bliss, while ignorance is just plain being stupid."
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It is quite true. The oblivious people are the happy people. In my experience they're also usually the selfish people.
This must have struck a chord with me because it annoyed me to read!
(Eleanor is smiling.) (Though, she means not to annoy.)
Oblivious is bliss, some call that addiction, mind numbing, reality altering, oblivious, bliiisssssssss. ahhhhhhhh gone from reality Denial? .....the alternative is sometimes more difficult then oblivious blissness. You wonder which is better.. blissness of oblivian or a smacking dose of real pain in your gut hate sucking life sucking, i'd rather be dead, crap? An occasional moment of bliss is probably necessary in many peoples lives. Today sucked but I got angry and got out relatively unscathed and lived to tell someone. someone in my life .. someone I love seemed to have some kind of a break down. I wondered how a lawn mower tire turned into an emergency worth screaming over? The poor tire was just an excuse to let the stress pour out, but I didnt want to recieve that so I left. Today I'd rather be obliviously bliss not knowing .. or does that mean I want to be ignorant? Maybe so .. I just don't want to care. Ranting .. ranting rant rant rant.
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