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Date Posted: 08:55:13 05/28/12 Mon
Author: cHB
Subject: Pierre linked to this:

This girl surely seemed to be resonating in sync the quantum gospel trinity; non-locality (inherent overarching interconnected unity), tangled hierarchy (interconnecting circularities) & discontinuity (randomness tao/shit happens, requiring leaps)

... although it doesn't appear to me that was a specific conscious intent. Or maybe she was just that good?

>>> Before we get to football, I have one modern, tragic Memorial Day story for you.

A young woman named Marina Keegan died Saturday in a single-car accident in Dennis, Mass., on Cape Cod, five days after graduating from Yale. She was 22. She wrote for the Yale Daily News while a student there, and her writing was so good, so compelling, that the News included her column, "The Opposite of Loneliness,'' in a special edition of the paper distributed to all students and families at graduation. I urge you to read it. [me too]

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/may/27/keegan-opposite-loneliness/?cross-campus

You go to college for many reasons, the biggest of which is probably (but not definitely) to get trained for what you'll do for the rest of your life. But along the way you experience a collegial feeling that's hard to describe until you've been through it. And Marina Keegan writes about it as eloquently as I've read.

"More than finding the right job or city or spouse -- I'm scared of losing this web we're in,'' Keegan writes. "This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness. This feeling I feel right now.''

"The first time I read the piece, I cried,'' [me too, 'bout 5 times] the editor-in-chief of the Daily News, Max de La Bruyere, told me Sunday night. "As a professor of ours said today, 'Marina always spoke her mind. She was determined to always be herself.' She knew what she wanted to write, and she always wrote it so well. She was such a shining light. She found time to do so much. She was the president of the Yale College Democrats, which takes up quite a lot of time. She wrote fiction and non-fiction, and she wrote a full-length musical last summer. And this story about life at Yale was so beautiful. Thank God she left us with this.''

It's beautiful. Read it. It'll make you sad, but sadness is part of life too.

Stories like these got Marina Keegan an editorial assistant job at the New Yorker, which was she was due to start two weeks from today in Manhattan. <<<

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She also wrote this ... -- cHB, 16:32:25 05/29/12 Tue