Here… sparked by your ES posting/reference for today (4/20)… maybe
you’ve read this before. A remark he made about his method of
weathering his world (at least at that particular moment)…
emotional rescue
written by neva chonin, taken from raygun summer 2001
“…lighting up another cigarette, smith shifts uncomfortably in his
chair. we’re getting into the personal stuff now, and he’d rather chew
tin foil than discuss it. he retreats into metaphor and allusion,
referring to his on-and-off depression as “the thing.” “i don’t try to
shut things out, because i don’t think that works very well. i prefer
to let thing come on in and do whatever it’s going to do and then
leave. if a big wave is coming at you, you’re gonna get wet. you can
either withdraw into a little shell and pretend that you’re not getting
wet, or you can just get wet and dry off. that’s a corny metaphor, i
guess, but that’s how i deal with things that i don’t like. i outlive
them. i haven’t drowned yet. you’ve just got to wait. if something gets
on my nerves, i usually just wait until it tires itself out and goes to
sleep.”
Hey, BTW — excellent summation of the “domino effect” of the sad
“facts/interpretations” underpinning his case, too.