The Blue Guitar
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They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied "Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar: Wallace Stevens
My friend Jonathan had a great tree house. It was awesome. It was like a big fort up in this tall magnolia tree… That’s where we would conduct our very important business, I’m sure, with all our bikes leaning up against a tree and no girls allowed, handling all sorts of important things you handle when you’re seven or eight.
Eric Ladin
“Here’s what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find.”
― David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
“A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a fort out of them. Children project souls into their favorite stuffed animals and commune with them in the way adults commune with religious icons. Years later he would remember a happy childhood, but it was interwoven with painful separations, confusions, misapprehensions, traumas, and mysteries. This is why all biographies are inadequate; they can never capture the inner currents. This is why self knowledge is limited. Only a few remarkable people can sense the way early experience has built models in the brain. Later in life we build fictions and theories to paper over the mystery of what is happening deep inside, but in childhood, the inexplicableness of the world is still vivid and fresh, and sometimes hits with terrifying force.”
― David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." – Han Solo, "Star Wars"
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