A bit of prose got stuck in my brain

[quesarah]

That night I thought long and not without despair about what must become of me. I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if there were not something like a soul or like a spirit that is in the life of a person and which could endure any misfortune or disfigurement and yet be no less for it. If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what. Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

-Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

Comments

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

Here we are Sun. again already. I had typed into Yahoo: life sucks and then you die (i was in a good mood you know) after about 60 entry's i come across some poor girls live journal; i guess by that name. Well i don't want to be reading that so out of curiosity i type in joebanks to see if i'll show up; i don't find me but i find a few different pieces on the movie "Joe vs. the Volcano". One discussion tells of how the movie is about "Courage and overcoming fear, and your destiny, discovering who you are..."

Very similar (i believe) to what you and your piece of stuck prose are discussing. This i get; this and a struggle with the destiny i seem to have chosen for myself. The courage to face my choices.

What's the red X that are on my entry's?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

The courage to face my choices.

This is what the piece is getting at, to my reckoning. That, and the idea that you will always be strong enough to follow through on the destiny you choose for yourself.

The red X's are in case you want to delete your post. If you decide you made a mistake or left something out, you can delete it and then post a new message.