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Quotation of the Day for December 5, 2010"In his last years, [my father] explained his dementia to me once, saying that he was aware of its presence, that he had the obligation to operate fully inside the real world that we, his family, could perceive and that we shared with him, and then he also had the obligation to keep straight another world, one utterly clandestine and thoroughly his own. He knew it wasn't real -- not to us, anyway -- and yet he also knew he had to function within it, since it was his. The fact of these competing worlds seemed like a version of the secret life he'd always led, one designed in the imagination, enacted in darkness, with elaborate rules but not the usual ones." - Antonya Nelson [http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/11/13/antonya_nelson_btk_killer/index.html] Submitted by: Trevor Goodyear Nov. 15, 2010 |
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