Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 5/14/12: Don't be crippled by seriousness.

Jacob Lawrence, "Struggle No. 27," 1956 — Jacob Lawrence, *Struggle...From the History of the American People No. 27. ...for freedom we want and will have, for we have served this cruel land long enuff... —a Georgia slave, 1810* (1956)

May 14, 2012:

Don't be crippled by seriousness.

The great revolutionaries were joyful. They found vitality in the fact of struggle. They turned their work into play, eroticized it, made it fun, made it happy.

Which came first? Defeat, or joylessness?