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paulbe | Favorite repost: “Quitting the Paint Factory”

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I believe I started my first journal-ish blog in 2006 with this repost. Once again (and thanks to Adamantine): Quitting the Paint Factory Mark Slouka Harper’s Magazine, November 2004 issue Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you’ll be safe, then. -Ovid, Remedia Amoris I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters. When I was young, my parents read me Aesop’s fable of “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” wherein, as everyone knows, the grasshopper spends the summer making music in the sun while the ant toils with his fellow formicidae. Inevitably, winter comes, as winters will, and the grasshopper, who hasn’t planned ahead and who doesn’t know what a 401K is, has run out of luck. When he shows up at the ants’ door, carrying his fiddle, the ant asks him what he was doing all year: “I was si

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