A continual sense of action

March 6, 2011 at 5:56 am | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

He was one of those men with a gamey taste in excitement. For such fellows the quieter social pleasures are not enough. Neither do the ordinary problems of living suffice to meet their gluttony for drama. Only a way of life which gives them a continual sense of action can keep them in good running order. If they can’t find it, they degenerate into great lovers or some other form of artificially compensated nonsense.

— John Myers Myers on Doc Holliday

(Dear Mr. Myers Myers: This condition happens to women, too, apparently. I’m not interested in packing a six-shooter and playing crooked card games. I just want to be a storybook pirate like Pippi Longstocking.)

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If degenerating into a great lover is artificial compensation, just hand me my Monopoly money now.

Although you *would* make a great children’s book pirate. Not one of those Somali pirates, though. So, y’know, don’t do THAT.

Comment by Paul— March 6, 2011 #

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- Paul, I thank you for these words of encouragement. Yes, even failures at this game can lay claim to Park Place, so: not a bad deal.
  
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