On self-loathing

Wearily, Joey slid down in the seat.  "What's it called when you start hating yourself?"

"A waste of energy."

---from Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen.

Comments

[Samuel]

I guess I really have to read Hiaasen. I didn't go wrong watching the movies you like, so I guess I can't go wrong this time too.

Not having much of what one would call a disposable income, and being in a job where I have to move every four months or so is not very conducive to buying books. I did not expect it to be so, but books are really heavy and I already have a bunch of books scattered all over the country. :-( (Talk about buying the complete Farside collection and discovering it weighs about 18 pounds!)

This is when I miss school most. I would just have had to go look in the library or ask for this book through the Inter Library Lending program they had.

[Mike Schilling]

Samuel, are there no public libraries where you live? I've found Hiaasen very well represented in the ones here. (And his older books tend to be available in reasonably prices paperback.)

[Kit Stolz]

I like these quotes--keep up the good reading!

[Samuel]

I never thought of looking for one here. The one in the previous city I lived in was too far away for me to walk to, but it turns out there is one I can walk to now.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Catherine]

Hmm, is this the motto of everyone who works for the Bush Administration?

[Lance]

Catherine,

Sure seems like it could be. But I don't think the Bush Leaguers are capable of even that level of self-examination where they could even consider that hating themselves might be a reasonable response to all they've done.

[cali dem]

Nice quote, Lance.