please, people, get some rest...
from an email:
"I have needed a nap, just one goddamned nap, since Monday--& do you think I could get one? This is why people lose their minds & go shoot up their offices. For decades they aren't allowed a nap when they need it, some time to get a tooth drilled, just one goddamned afternoon to drink beer in the sun...finally the brain snaps, & after decades of suppression, it snaps too much. We need to feed these little demons of ours, not repress them...give them a little time in the light...indulge them in spurts, so they'll be sated & go back to sleep. But you tell them "no" for 20 years & you'll end up eating a nice god-fearing family of 5 & Fox News will call you a monster...& you'll be interviewed & all you'll be able to say is "All I wanted was a nap, a man should be able to have a nap if he needs one..." & they'll cut back to the interviewer who'll shake his head & say "...a cold, unfeeling monstrosity...here's Sally with the weather..." & who's the monster then?"
- Hosho McCreesh
"I have needed a nap, just one goddamned nap, since Monday--& do you think I could get one? This is why people lose their minds & go shoot up their offices. For decades they aren't allowed a nap when they need it, some time to get a tooth drilled, just one goddamned afternoon to drink beer in the sun...finally the brain snaps, & after decades of suppression, it snaps too much. We need to feed these little demons of ours, not repress them...give them a little time in the light...indulge them in spurts, so they'll be sated & go back to sleep. But you tell them "no" for 20 years & you'll end up eating a nice god-fearing family of 5 & Fox News will call you a monster...& you'll be interviewed & all you'll be able to say is "All I wanted was a nap, a man should be able to have a nap if he needs one..." & they'll cut back to the interviewer who'll shake his head & say "...a cold, unfeeling monstrosity...here's Sally with the weather..." & who's the monster then?"
- Hosho McCreesh
posted by christopher cunningham at 3:21 PM
4 Comments:
who's the monster indeed.
i've felt for years that a very large percentage of these "psychopathic monsters" out there are normal people, like you and me and everyone else, but who've just come up against something larger than themselves: got stuck in a shitty job, knocked up and married a domineering woman, prevented from taking a nap.
what evil lurks just below the surface of us all?
Thanks for the laughs with that e-mail excerpt! Why is our country so dumb about the idea of the afternoon nap? Other countries get long lunches and afternoon naps, why can't we?
how timely that an episode of 60 Minutes last Sunday talked about research detailing just this: the "macho" American tendency towards less sleep. sleep is as necessary as food. people die after 5 dies of no sleep. same with food. we eat 3 times a day (more if you're like me) and sleep only 5-6 hours?
take a nap, Hosho...i'll hold down the fort for a few...
Sleep dep is a wicked ugly thing.
Sometimes sleep is not an option.
I know. Really. I know...
Driving a truck three hours over
the federal limit, looking for a
place to park at a truck stop
without any parking, living with
precious little sleep.
Sleep dep is wicked bad.
I know. Believe me, I know.
Had I ever thought to write about it?
One of the tasks a writer has
before them is to capture a moment
in those places we all visit, and
hold that moment forth and say:
See here? I've been here, This is
what it was like.
Hosho McCreesh does that.
He does it wicked cool.
Great letter.
- -
Okay,
Father Luke
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