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Sam Spence - The Lineman
Plays in:
6a. "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy"
20b. "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II"
31a. "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III"
45a. "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV"
52b. "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V"
67b. "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture"
94b. "Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob"
117a. "Shuffleboarding"
205b. "Mermaid Pants"
219a. "Man Ray Returns"
Sam Spence - The Lineman (1970)
that’s some cute refere there
Relke decided Braxton was wrong. There was a God, all right, maybe personal, maybe not, but there was a God, and He wasn't mean. His universe was a deadly contraption, but maybe there wasn't any way to build a universe that wasn't a deadly contraption--like a square circle. He made the contraption and He put Man in it, and Man was a fairly deadly contraption himself. But the funny part of it was, there wasn't a damn thing the universe could do to a man that a man wasn't built to endure. He could even endure it when it killed him. And gradually he could get the better of it. It was the consistency of matched qualities--random mercilessness and human endurance--and it wasn't mean, it was a fair match.
Walter M Miller, JR, “The Lineman”
He sat down with his back to her and pretended to ignore her. She was dangerously close to that state of mind which precedes the telling of a life history. He didn't want to hear it; he already knew it. So she was in a nunnery; Relke was not surprised. Some people had to polarize themselves. If they broke free from one pole, they had to seek its opposite. People with no middle ground. Black, or if not black, then white. never gray. Law, or criminality. God, or Satan. The cloister, or a whorehouse. Eternally a choice of all or nothing-at-all, and they couldn't see that they made things that way for themselves. They set fire to every bridge they ever crossed--so that even a cow creek became a Rubicon, and every crossing was on a tightrope.
Walter M Miller, JR, “The Lineman”
I use my free time for important things. THIS IS TOTALLY ONE OF THEM.
Norman Rockwell, The Lineman. 1949, oil on canvas. Private collection.
