Many of my numerous and passionate fans say to me,
(say they):  “Hey -  Valucchi,
what can you tell us specifically about getting a superior handle on what life is up to --  you know,
without getting all bogged down in details,” 
while others in my vast audience of 
ardent adherents, 
(known in The Bay area as: Glueheads), say:
”Yo --  Valuch, would you stop dancing around the
edges, and just spit out at us directly
what it is we should be looking for.” 
Well, as B.T.Parnum said: “I guess this about 
proves conclusively that you cannot 
safely store wax figures in a burning building,” *
and -- do all of you boys & girls recognize the 
applicability of that observation vis-a-vis all the stuff 
you found piled in the attic of your house 
once you became sufficiently acclimated 
to the conditions of this planet to go up there?
So --  since all of you have long ago already 
ventured up there --  and found the place unacceptable in its current state  --
how’s about you all stand up; turn around four times;
look north; touch your forehead; curl your tongue; 
cross your eyes, then cry out in a 
pretentiously impassioned voice:
”Oh,  Great Valucchi  --  lead on!
Lead on, you trusty husky.” 
(Did you remember to bring your mental snow shoes?
As they begin to melt, last year’s old neural juices 
tend to be viscid, [leastwise life’s arranged it so’s they’re INTENDED to be] --   but – Hey!
if you’re still bothered by what life INTENDS for men -- what the hell are you doing reading this?!

But, now on to the customized News for this Monday.
 

(Today’s stories can be umbrellaed under 
this sobriquet, 
[pertinent to a more thalamic pugilistic approach]):

Things You Can Count On If You Don’t Care For
The Count You’re Getting From The Referee 
Life Assigned To Your Match: 
(and don’t forget to wear a protective cup both below,
and on your head --
since I’m prepared to hit an interested man anywhere.)
 
 
 
 
 

If you’re thinking about it -- you’re on the right track;
if you’re beyond thinking about it – 
                   --  you’re really cookin’.
 
 
 
 

One purpose of speech is to warn others,
and complaining can be seen as a form thereof.
From this view, things that can be criticized as stupid, like preaching about what god wants men to do, 
can be seen not as stupid, but as
valid survival techniques.

From this overall view then, 
the only thing stupid is in not realizing that 
all behavior has at root,
some meaningful purpose.
 
 
 
 
 

 All talk about art is talk about talk.
Everything said about any aspect of the second reality is just --    talk-about-talk.

If you can’t put it in a drawer then what you’re always talking about is merely --   talk-about-talk.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Don’t waste your life looking for THE KNOWLEDGE   without, 
and don’t look for needless entanglements & trouble
without  -- for indeed, 
that is all you will find from looking out there.
 
 
 
 

             When you try to say what you are, 
          what you really are recedes from you.
 
 
 
 
 

  A son asked a father: “Does the greatest torment in ordinary men’s lives come from their failure to be concerned about THE MATTER?” and he replied:
”What care would you have over Thursday 
if you had never heard of Thursday, 
or didn’t understand what it is, even if you had?!”
 
 
 
 

                         In your brain,
                         for the cobra sane,
                         is all you’ll ever need.
 
 
 
 

To get THE UNDERSTANDING:
take a snake’s course; 
a cool disposition, and,
straight like an arrow.

           About The Mechanics Of Getting There:
         The method is cold – its execution, torrid.
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Every day a father would enter the sons’ room and say: “What is this?” 
Day after day, year after year he would say to him; 
“What is this?” -- 
until the boy finally got it.
 
 
 
 
 

Believing that A KNOWLEDGE exists
keeps you from it. 
…(yeah, it’s ratty --  but that’s how it is.)
 
 
 
 

                Anything that can be explained 
            is not part of THE UNDERSTANDING.
 
 
 
 
 

  A man visited an Exterminator and said:
”There is one  question I want answered, and that is: 
Why the unbridgeable gap between how 
everyone says life should be and how it actually is; 
can you explain this external contradiction?” 
and after a silence the man said: “Well, 
aren’t you going to answer me: 
can you explain this contradiction?” 
and the Exterminator said: “I just did.” 
 
 
 

          Getting THE UNDERSTANDING is one thing;
                to keep it   --  stop chasing rabbits.
 
 
 
 
 
 

                        Resistance is ignorance.
 
 
 
 
 
 

When you have THE UNDERSTANDING -- you disappear.

By the way: THE UNDERSTANDING cannot be understood, and if you do think that you understand it, 
then you do not have it. 
…(yeah, even more rattiness --  but it can’t be helped.)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Today’s Road Marker: 
Life wants men to be concerned about each other,
and about the future of humanity -- but --
             --   SO WHAT?!                      What’s it to you?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There are two distinct foes to getting THE KNOWLEDGE:
"You read my mind," and: 
"What the hell you talkin' 'bout?!"
 
 
 
 
 
 

A man who believes he has "accomplished great things"
                      has accomplished nothing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

No one takes GETTING-THE-UNDERSTANDING as seriously as 
                                                      the person trying to get it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                     Only those who don’t-know
                           want to talk about it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Does having THE KNOWLEDGE empty your yard?
Not necessarily -- 
but once you recognize the omnipresence, persistence, and significance of dust, 
your fanatical housekeeping days are behind you.

What profit can be derived from 
rejecting your bequeathment?!
  ‘T’would be a foolish fish who failed to recognize water.
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE UNDERSTANDING shows you how things were & are before your mind perforce, 
turned away from how things are.
 

And it is not accurate to say: “Welcome back home”
for it is scheduled that mind takes every man from his animal place of birth to 
where his life as a mortal must be played. 
Those with THE UNDERSTANDING have 
extended the journey to its present ultimate:
they see where mind has taken man.
 

Those who bemoan having gone from G to H
do not grasp the geography-of-the-inevitable,
nor the reward of its realization.
  All are prisoners in the jail of reality --
  but because of understanding this
  those with THE UNDERSTANDING are free --
  …free to do whatever is possible for prisoners to do.
 
 
 

When you realize that you can referee your own life, (leastwise the bouts that occur solely in your head),
you will be pleased to discover that after:
”…7, 8, 9,” comes: “Get up --  you’re free to go now.”
 

The "truth" is outdoors  --  THE UNDERSTANDING, not.
 

                                 Jan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

* Forget: “There’s a sucker born every minute,”
and consider rather that: 
Mind is an endless purveyor of lollipops --
flavor: distractive.