More on Dean & Me, plus some Kirsch
Feb. 19th, 2011 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyThat Dean & Me book was heartbreaking and sweet. Jerry Lewis shares that he dreams about Dean, about once a month, ever since he died. Dreams about Dean the way he was when he was young.
"I dream about Dean pretty often, maybe once a month since he died. In my dreams, he's almost always young, tan, still unbelievably handsome - indestructible. Sometimes, though, in these ultra-vivid late-night movies, bad things are happening - to him, to me, to both of us - and I'm powerless to stop them. Sometimes, my wife tells me, I cry out in my sleep. Other times, I'm Super Jew, making everything right, doing all the things I might have done, when the pressures on us were so enormous."
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"I lost my partner and my best friend. The man who made me the man I am today. I think of him with undying respect. I miss him every day I'm still here. I've considered the idea of our getting together again someday, but I believe when we die we are just put away and life goes on. My prayer to be with him again isn't realistic, but I'll live the rest of my life with the memory of a great and wonderful man, my partner, Dean Martin... G.R.H.S."
Book I'm about to start reading: King David - The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel. It's by Jonathan Kirsch, whose books I've liked (and learned stuff from) in the past. The first book of his that I read was God Against the Gods, which is a great breakdown of the rise of monotheism over polytheism.
"I dream about Dean pretty often, maybe once a month since he died. In my dreams, he's almost always young, tan, still unbelievably handsome - indestructible. Sometimes, though, in these ultra-vivid late-night movies, bad things are happening - to him, to me, to both of us - and I'm powerless to stop them. Sometimes, my wife tells me, I cry out in my sleep. Other times, I'm Super Jew, making everything right, doing all the things I might have done, when the pressures on us were so enormous."
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"I lost my partner and my best friend. The man who made me the man I am today. I think of him with undying respect. I miss him every day I'm still here. I've considered the idea of our getting together again someday, but I believe when we die we are just put away and life goes on. My prayer to be with him again isn't realistic, but I'll live the rest of my life with the memory of a great and wonderful man, my partner, Dean Martin... G.R.H.S."
Book I'm about to start reading: King David - The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel. It's by Jonathan Kirsch, whose books I've liked (and learned stuff from) in the past. The first book of his that I read was God Against the Gods, which is a great breakdown of the rise of monotheism over polytheism.