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30 May 2005

Help me find out who this poet is. "When young we mourn for one woman,
as we grow old, for women in general.

The tragedy of life is that man is never free, but strives for what can never be.

The thing most feared in dreams, always happens. My life, my love, where are they now?

But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself.

The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will it clarify itself and become coherent."

post by: Schyler523 at: 16:41 | 4 comments

The above is used as a sample in this compilation(mp3 75MB, about 16 min. in)

I like it right now.

posted by Schyler523 30 May | 16:44

err...maybe it's from Slackers...nevermind.

posted by Schyler523 30 May | 16:50

Googling the above quote leads to this site, which could mean the lyrics belong to this artist. I'm too lazy to search any further...

posted by thatweirdguy2 30 May | 17:00

These are the lines The Old Man Recording His Thoughts speaks into his microphone at the end of Slacker.

The Old Man was played by Joseph Jones, who spent 40 years teaching English at the University of Texas at Austin. Jones died in 1999, following his wife Johanna, whom he married in 1935. He wrote widely on the American Transcendentalists and followed the example of Thoreau in his book Life on Waller Creek, a memoir of the UT community and the creek that runs through it. He also wrote Walking the forty acres, a geological walking tour of the UT campus.

Linklater is credited as Slacker's screenwriter, so he's probably the author you're looking for. But I wouldn't be surprised if Professor Jones wrote those particular lines. He obviously lived them.

posted by Tacky O. Assis 30 May | 22:53

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