the first to arrive and the last to leave, solitary dancers, road-trippers, nappers, criers, people who could shame a sailor with their curses, belly-laughers, spinners, smilers, elephants, chimney-sweeps, queens, kings, and jesters...people who cover the world in their words and fill it with their song...must be silly. the whole point of life is to have fun living it."In the late 19th century, a German physician by the name of Max Nordau actually published a book called Degeneration, in which he seriously suggested that all the major artists of recent years had proven to be neurotics, alcoholics or drug addicts, or that they were just flat-out insane. He believed that the profusion of art was a sign of social decay and that it actually undermined civilized society. Therefore, he concluded that the healthy mind should at all costs resist the evil influence of art. Quite a hoot, that Max.Though Herr Nordau's twisted logic may be amusing, there are still plenty of right-wing extremists out there who fly into fits of hysteria every time a work of art emerges that upsets their delicate mindset. Such people have yet to fully grasp the live and let live philosophy and are not to be invited to the party under any circumstances whatsoever."~The Hedonism Handbook, Michael Flocker