01-17-2011, 12:00 AM
Castaneda asked, "How can we be morose? Talia," he told us, "was very
morose this morning." He claimed he’d never seen her looking so down.
He imitated her frowning, and looking downward. All the way to class "I
was singing tangos to try to cheer her up," but got only a weak laugh.
So when they finally got up to the door he told her, "Now, tell me
what’s going on, or you can’t come into the class." She said, "Oh, I
read a sad story." His response was, "*** that. How ‘sensitive’ to get
down about some sad story. She read ‘David Copperfield.’ Come on! We
can’t be morose.
The worst has already happened. We’re dead already. But don Juan’s idea was,
‘Let’s
put up a fight before they find and prove that we’re dead.’ Let’s
deprive the Flyers of their nourishment. We can dry them up. If we
deprive them of their nourishment, they’ll go away."
http://www.sustainedaction.org/Notes/Sunday_091596.htm
morose this morning." He claimed he’d never seen her looking so down.
He imitated her frowning, and looking downward. All the way to class "I
was singing tangos to try to cheer her up," but got only a weak laugh.
So when they finally got up to the door he told her, "Now, tell me
what’s going on, or you can’t come into the class." She said, "Oh, I
read a sad story." His response was, "*** that. How ‘sensitive’ to get
down about some sad story. She read ‘David Copperfield.’ Come on! We
can’t be morose.
The worst has already happened. We’re dead already. But don Juan’s idea was,
‘Let’s
put up a fight before they find and prove that we’re dead.’ Let’s
deprive the Flyers of their nourishment. We can dry them up. If we
deprive them of their nourishment, they’ll go away."
http://www.sustainedaction.org/Notes/Sunday_091596.htm