A
father said to a son:
“Trying
to make sense out of city facts is like trying to turn facts INTO sense.
No
matter where you look (where you are) you will never see anything but stuff
that
is where you are;
regardless
of how fondly do civilians cherish the concept:
on
city property: you cannot pull
yourself up by your own bootstraps;
there
is an unknown law of mental physics that makes this impossible (just like
how
a
chicken can’t teach itself any new song that is not sung in the key of
Cluck Sharp).
To
ordinary minds: anything
can seem to make sense that comes from,
and
is heard by
the mind;
the
mind of the certain man understands that this arrangement is proper for
collective
humanity’s normal thinking, and has further discovered his
profitable
ability to be free of it simply by remembering that he’s hip to it.”
“For sure Pop: what good is knowing even The
Secret Of Life
if you can’t remember what it is?!”
“No
-- it’s way better than that: not even remembering THAT you know
it.”
“Man! -- that’s a weird sounding statement!”
“So
what kind have you found to be profitable that is not (to your old city
ears)?!”
“You nailed me again, my prodigious male progenitor."
At
a recent reception at City Hall,
a stranger took the mayor’s elbow,
and
told him the following story:
“There
was this man who threw himself in a well........no wait:
there
was a man who made himself into
a well...........uh – hold it:
there
was a man who made himself into a well and THEN threw himself in,”
(the
version with which the fellow finally seemed satisfied.)
Important
Info About Being Civilized.
Being
in part sick
of being civilized is part OF being civilized.
“Yes
my boy, we could all learn a lot from life!”
“Why the hell would anyone want to learn anything about
something they’re already being forced to do!”
“Calm
down there lad, I don’t believe you’ve gotten the real gist of
what
I am talking about.”
“Oh, I’ve got it alright!”
“Are
you sure?”
“I’m absolutely certain!”
“Well
that proves you don’t.”
Being
in part always uncertain about what you’re certain of
is
a normal part of BEING certain -- in the city.
The
awareness of the brain’s consciousness when it is not engaged in matters
of
an
essential nature is like a two legged bird on a live wire,
constantly
hopping from one foot to another;
whereas
a fuller realized consciousness would be like the bird forever hovering
--
just
above the wire.
The
More Alert Person’s Horoscope For Today.
The
planets are still – up there,
and
you are still -- down here:
the
animate is animate -- the inanimate, not –
so
what else is new, cusp-breath.
Trying
to make sense of life by making sense of the universe, is almost as stupid
as attempting the reverse.
And
someone inquires:
“So according to your view: you can never learn Spanish from a Spaniard?!”
You
missed it: you can not learn Spanish from a Spaniard
if
you can mistake its sound for a picture of its alphabet;
again
it is that radical distinction which ordinary brains are not programmed
to
bring into consciousness concerning the difference between nouns and verbs;
between
the universe and life;
between
an actual active mind
and one that is merely a passive receiver ---
ultimately
'twixt what is animate and what is not -- even amidst life.
Now:
Your Question For The Day.
Why
is it not dangerous to fall from three dimensional heights?
Answer:
the fall off of a shadow is never high enough to hurt you.
Imaginary
spills -- illusory ills.
Newly
Mined Legend.
One
day on another world (in a desire to do something fresh)
the
reality in charge of the man-similar creatures there said to them:
“Everyone
who still
doesn’t know what they’re doing -- and are now aware of it,
raise
your hands,”
and
every man-jack of them raised their little hand,
and
the reality thought: “SHIT! -- I didn’t expect this.”
And
this email just in to our Legend
Desk.
“If
you do just make up all the stories you report,
and
if life makes it all up (including you, and thus indirectly, all of your
stories)
then
what’s the big deal?!” -- (which segues smartly
into our):
Newly
Discovered: Big Deal.
Personal
hygiene is to hormonal health as personal hygiene is to neural,
(plus,
don’t forget: everybody’s an expert).
And
someone says: “Pardon, but you have said this before, and I must disagree:
I
do not believe that I am an expert of any kind,”
and
that sir, is an integral part of it.
In
the dark, everyone is Einstein,
and
even if they fear otherwise,
in
those conditions, they will never be found out.
There
is not only safety-in-numbers, there is total
protection for stupidity therein,
J
The Tale Of A Certain Time And Particular Mode Revisited
With the rising of Saturday’s sun,
when the weekend vibe had truly begun,
one man would:
fire up the music,
grab hold his crotch,
hold high papers, and propose a toast:
“Here’s to a little hemp, Hamp, and heavy hipped honeys -- and,
(thanks to these natural and artificial stimuli)
two whole days of me not being who I really am,”
(as though that was a condition requiring extrinsic prompting).
JAN'S
DAILY
REAL
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