Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
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| Freewriting: One of Those Days |
Today is one of those days grey sky exploding with purple cumulous cloud/bombs. Sharp rippling wind, the ponderous creeping mountains in the sky with ragged edges sometimes brushing off, slowly floating away.
Here and there, the sun is behind the thin parts of the mountains, turning purple/grey to glaring white, or hale [sic], behind which we prisoners of grey earth see brilliant blue sky beyond and wish we were there.
And just east there is a gigantic, shapeless mass, grey with blues and stationary above the mountain and now dark masses are more numerous, slowly rally toward us from the southwest over the distant mountains; the endless sky is full of great jagged amebas on interminable journeys from unconscious membership in each others’ bellies to endless breakings and joinings drifting, colliding, shedding parts of themselves, of each other, all part of the infinite great dark society of all clouds where individuality means nothing, on e cloud is 20 clouds, 40, one hundred, the universe of clouds, all members of one great disconnected whole broken cloud. The cloud of all clouds—in unity, place is meaninglessness!
And here and there, all over the sky, flapping-winged gulls, like trapeze artists banging from the land/mountains swinging through the air overseeing the motley human machines, grinding out happy foolishness and nonessential wisdom below. Then endless humans beneath the clouds, alive and dead. Wise, wise, and “wise,” stupid and “Stupid,” scowling and smiling and laughing and imitating and walking and sitting and REGULAR and lying and giving the finger and a million looks on a billion faces. Criticizing and congratulating, and slugging and killing and endless anylizing [sic] each other. People with inferiority complexes, people who must conform, criminal people, sex maniacs, “intellectuals,” intellectuals, masochists, martyrs, fools, dead. All conforming to something. How can you help it? All conforming to conformity. All dead soon or now? Endless adolescents looking in a million mirrors at...
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Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
8800 Grossmont College Drive
El Cajon, California 92020
619-644-7000
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