
There’s a white diamond gloom
On the dark side of this room
And a pathway that leads up to the stars
If you don’t believe there’s a price
For this sweet paradise
Just remind me to show you the scars

There’s a white diamond gloom
On the dark side of this room
And a pathway that leads up to the stars
If you don’t believe there’s a price
For this sweet paradise
Just remind me to show you the scars
One of my comments earned forty-five cents on Reddit.
by C. G. L. Du Cann
I forget why I even had this in my Kindle. But it was a quick read. Run-of-the-mill self-help exhortations from the 1950s.

Yes, the same yarn again, it’s what I got.

It’s done. I actually kind of like it.

Back to doing haphazard schizoid yarn.
“You like to think you chose the right music when the truth is that the music chose you.”
This thought has seized me. My first Dylan albums took such a convoluted path (through someone’s trash) to reach me. Then they sat ignored in the corner of my room for four years. Apparently, all that time, they were whispering, “play me… play me…”



The gales of November have not come early; it’s a beautiful, sunny day. But the melancholia has come down on me nevertheless. It’s cold and the world has walls around it again.