New Cities/New Soviets

July 24, 2004

GrrAnimal

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D.H. Lawrence, quoted in G.I. Jane


This quote came into my mind the other day and suddenly it struck me as absolutely phony. An animal can't survive nearly the hardship that a person can, exacly because it can't feel sorry for itself. Self-pity projects. self pity protects. a person who can no longer construct the worth of their own lives has recourse, for as long as they need, as long as the shelter holds.

Looking for this quote I also had to look through a good amount of D.H. Lawrence's stuff, and it all seems to suffer from this same confusion. People don't hide unless they need to. When they have the tools to overcome the things that threaten them, coming out of hiding is easy. To simply thrust yourself out of hiding -- that's just another version of the confidence trick. You get hurt.

Now, I was raised in many ways to just throw myself out in the world. So, like, you can do it, it just has alot of hidden consequences...

Posted by Sam at July 24, 2004 06:23 AM

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