what's in youth? a bag of bones and hormones. what's in wrinkles of age? what's in a hollow puppet?

people drown me with their, er, overwhelming desires and zest. guess i'll just have to get some zest.
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lets talk about short stories. i thought The Lottery was good, but at the time the story was published people cancelled subcriptions to the magazine in which the story was written and Shirley Jackson received hate mail. "(author's) mother scolded her, 'Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker,' she wrote sternly; 'it does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?'"
and i thought The Lottery was good. maybe 'cause im in the new generation. i feel old though.

http://www.americanliterature.com/Jackson/SS/TheLottery.html

history does seem to repeat itself.
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.