an ontological orientation

"An Ontological Orientation," October 15, 2022 (#288)

title from "Still searching for the Promised Land: placing women in Bruce Springsteen's lyrical landscapes" by Pamela Moss (2011)

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (2001)

Bossypants by Tina Fey (2011)

Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll by Marc Dolan (2012)

An Ontological Orientation

With a quick look around, she determined she’d see no one she knew in the

end and he realized that was no Mars bar! But there was no turning back

that the words of a song were basically disposable. But if he had indeed tried

letting a little of her own curiosity creep through her concern,

it was basically a way to keep kids from drinking or having

a number of stages of the contemporary feeling of disempowerment

getting a bad feeling about this. She skittered behind them. She

walked downstairs past my friends and coworkers without saying

the details and experiences of other people’s lives, to channel his art through

making faces at him when a ball came flying at her. Her reflexes were

with the blithe confidence of a moron. I was the baby in the

most far-reaching modern transformations of American government.

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