notebooks of a chile verde smuggler

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-"i needed a very simplle zen quote: something like: "peanut bag with salt next to tomato juice plastic gllass marvelous." i need a zen quote that will slap my ears, say, Juan Boy! something like this & blam! i am drinking tomatoes as i write."

-i chose this quote because, to me, it doesn't make much sens. a zen quote is suppose to mean something, but then again, if you look at the quote he wrote, all it is, is what he was doing, drinking tomatoes. this quote didnt have much significance to the story it was in. he wanted to take this quote in put it into his tomato juice.

-"I aam that paper, i am those words now, the ink burns pyres in every cell. when i look out to the trees, the llong winding streets of tortilllla flats, as they shoot to the hillls and cut the ellectric rails of the muni buses to the towers and twin peaks, the fog and into the sky haze, i see your signs, i read your voice, now i do. yes."

- this quote made me think a lot. it starts off by saying that it is a sheet of paper but then it turns out to be something different. maybe it is stilll the paper, but it means a lot more then just something you write on. it knows who you are because you writer what you feell on it and it knows your voice from when you're talking and writting. i guess what this means over all, is that a sheet of paper knows you very well.