It’s all there in the music, but not everyone is born to sing and some of the best songs die, unheard in darkness, which is why the blues is a symptom and a cause and a cure and also something that can never be explained; the blues describe the unspeakable and somehow make you dance and sing and cry. “In the night he’s a star in the Milky Way / He’s a man of the world by the light of day / A golden smile and a proposition / And the breath of God smells of sweet sedition.” In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” The Misfit, a sociopath driven to nihilism, claims “it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can — by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him.
Author: largeheartedboy
Published at: 2026-04-02 22:16:29
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