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Deliverance pg. 40 Lyrics by James Dickey

1970

"I am a get-through-the-day man. I don't think I was ever anything else. I am not a great art director. I am not a great archer. I am mainly interested in sliding. Do you know what sliding is?"
"No. You want me to guess?"
"I'll tell you. Sliding is living antifriction. Or, no, sliding is living by antifriction. It is finding a modest thing you can do, and then greasing that thing. On both sides. It is grooving with comfort."
"You don't believe in madness, eh?"
"I don't at all. I know better than to fool with it."
"So what do you do..."
"So what you do is go on by it. What you do is get done what you ought to be doing. And what you do rarely-- and I mean rarely-- is to flirt with it."
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James Dickey

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