Burgeon's Escape: January 2013

Forty years later
Innocent blood flowing flood
America drowns

Inspiration

"It doesn't matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it's thrown into the fire next minute, I am so much further on."
- C.S. Lewis
letter to Arthur Greeves

"Come writers and critics who prophesy with your pen, and keep your eyes wide - the chance won't come again."
- Bob Dylan
"The Times They are A-Changin'"

"I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used [...] Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"On Fairy Stories"

"In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding [...] a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we
are immortal."
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden

"Man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict."
- Jack Kerouac
On the Road

Burgeon's Escape

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Anniversary