roles to play and rules to break

"Roles to Play and Rules to Break," October 10, 2022 (#283)

title from Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music by Greil Marcus (1975)

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert (2015)

Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (2018)

Roles to Play and Rules to Break

As a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment,

when one of us had power or happiness or substantiality, the other must

give in to it. Such is the bizarre, an unearthly contract of creative living. There

it was not possible to enjoy as I’d hoped, as if it were a sumptuous feast frozen

to discuss it. All I had to do in order to learn from Dickens was to spend years

in dreary shades of brown to communicate heath food. A line of vinyl

can manage to live comfortably off your inspiration forever, that's fantastic

scattered around the pages as they arose, in a disorganized way, including

millions of copies. I worked with stubborn gladness when critics praised

the position of president with stubbornness—as if, with enough willpower,

you were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than

give it to me now, without an occasion? I flipped the switch in the back.

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10-10-22 from The Elvis Encyclopedia by Adam Victor (2008)

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