{Since There is Reality to Deal With}

Here's Marilyn Monroe and some of her poetry/fragments.(More photos here, more of her poetry here.) In terms of her idea on sincerity, I find it fascinating that, 50 years later, David Foster Wallace wrote, in depth, about the same concept.

"feel what I feel within myself — that is, trying to become aware of it, also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts — or ideas realize the thing that they are –"

"I’m finding that sincerity
and trying to be as simple or direct as possible
is often taken for sheer stupidity
but since it is not a sincere world –
it’s very probable that being sincere is stupid.
One probably is stupid to
be sincere since it’s in this world
and no other world that we know
for sure we exist — meaning that –
(since reality exists it should be met and dealt with)
since there is reality to deal with"