equal parts holiness and hangover

"Equal Parts Holiness and Hangover," February 25, 2022 (#56)

title from Bag of Bones by Stephen King (1998)

Angels in the Outfield (1994)

Angels and Demons (2009)

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (2011)

The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven by Rick Moody (1995)

The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks by Russell Banks (2000)

Angels in America by Tony Kushner (1991)

Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block (2009)

one line from The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (2014)

Equal Parts Holiness and Hangover

Okay, we're holding our own. Holding our own. Holding our own.

One example of this mysterious, unsought progress is the long-term

American's interpretation of a four hundred year old

debut for him, he kept saying, it was a debut. And the rest of us were supposed to be

silent again. Relieved, I reached across her to the bed table and got my

drinking and physical stuff. She doesn't talk about that, instead she talks about

the right instrument, even, but they're just not who we are looking for. I

could turn this team around, but that just doesn't seem to be happening.


One still sometimes reads that violence is perpetrated by a few bad apples who

always saw the middle way. I wanted to be ordained, but I

didn't see how I was going to get along with people--it was a skill I didn't have; I had

to be alone like that, it was simply awful,

and honorable producers who gambled on this outrageous experiment

shouldn't have been let out but they all were. And somewhere, down there,

there were close to a hundred topsails moored out there, shimmering on the

astute evaluation...of a potentially difficult decision.


So let me begin by convincing you that most of us—including you, dear,

used this place for centuries as a hideout, a prison for

another subject, and then come back to it. And then another refrain emerged

like a huge breath, an exhalation, and though it pummeled him, he wasn't

the virus of prophecy. Be still. Toil no more. Maybe the world has driven

on music boxes going around and around like I can't stop.

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