July
25, 2001.
Since it will soon be a year
since these daily writings commenced,
we will celebrate your birthday
early by giving you a concise wrap up
of all the previous days’ news.
……(Anyone
who now says I never gave them anything is a liar.)
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THE PHANTOM ARMY
There is a phantom army --
which has a real general;
it rides out everyday; accomplishes
nothing; no soldier ever returns,
and this is repeated endlessly.
The general generally appears
oblivious to the situation,
and continually urges on his
imaginary forces in their hollow pursuits,
and at odd times when he does
suddenly, come-to-attention,
the army and entire operation
momentarily vanish;
then, after a brief, harmless
pause -- everything goes back like before:
a phantom army -- a real general.
THE STRANGE ILLNESS
On one world, some people suffered
from a low intensity ill
that caused them much frustration,
and whose specific cause defied
discovery.
They finally decided that it
had to be due to something
they were consuming --
but extensive testing turned
up no culprit:
they found much junk food in
everyone’s diet,
but such is meaningless --
not malicious.
They then turned their attention
to the packaging of their consumables,
theorizing that the toxin could
therein reside;
again they found much that was
superfluous, but not noxious.
So, they were stuck: if their
malady comes from something they ingest,
and it is not in the contents
–
and it is not in the container
-- what?!?!
Question for you:
What did they not see that is
clearly there amidst the above details?
The Big Goof
One race of beings eventually
realized that they had originally
gotten off onto the wrong foot
by adopting a common description whereby they would say: “I am going somewhere,”
(to this-or-that place, the
exact destination of no importance),
the relevancy was in the idea
that: ”I am going SOME where,”
for they finally recognized
that the only part of that statement
that was real was the word,
“going,” and that there is no such thing as, “somewhere,”
(or destinations overall), there is only this:
a phantom army -- and a real general,
and those who see this, see all that there is to see.
J
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