Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if the day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.įog everywhere. Horses, scarcely better splashed to their very blinkers. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes - gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.” You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise, you will hesitate to call yourself an American, you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. When you don't have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You know when you look in the mirror and you think 'oh, I'm so fat, I'm so old, I'm so ugly', don't you know, that's not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around creme that doesn't turn around shit. It's all about how you have to look a certain way or else you're worthless.
Especially women's and gay men's culture. “If you are a woman, if you're a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person od intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.Īnd it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere.
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