> Sherelle
Wouldn't that be a beautiful thing, Sherelle?
Although I've lost interest in her later work, there are a couple of
Rita Mae Brown's books that are among my favorites. Here's a quote
from 'Southern Discomfort':
'Well don't you see, Miz Banastre? I've thought about this before,
too. It's God's joke.'
'Color?''
'Yes, color and everything. God put beautiful spirits into these
bodies, all kinds of bodies. There's men and women and white and
black and beautiful and ugly and old and young and oh, just
everything. And we dumb humans are confused by the outside. We keep
looking at the outside instead of the inside.....Pretty soon we start
killing each other because of these bodies. And God laughs because
we're so stupid. We can't see anything. He puts spirits in every one
of us and trees and cats and everything. So maybe we aren't the same
outside, maybe we are unequal, but inside the soul is pure. All souls
are equal. If only we could see the soul. Some people do and they
understand the joke and maybe they find happiness. I_' She fumbled
for her thoughts, a connection, and then said with finality, 'We are
one.'
thanks you for sharing that Mark. I think it just about sums it up.
bw
colin
