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NO MATTER WHAT IS SAID ABOUT IT:
THE CITY ALWAYS LOOKS
A CERTAIN WAY TO THE PEOPLE IN IT
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An Outlier's View  --  Since 1842
  August 26, 2003                                                                    © 2003: JAN COX
 
 

The Code The Few Need To Crack Is Not Too Hidden  --  But Too Obvious.
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How Things Work In The Mind.
Committing crimes is not what gets you imprisoned --
bringing attention to yourself committing them is.
“But that raises the bear of a question: How do you stay unnoticed by your own self?”
    “If it was easy there would be no slave camps, now would there."
Corollary: Eating sweets all the time makes the weekend last longer.
  “Are you’re indicating this is connected to the above?!”
 
 
 
 

One man sometimes wished he was a deposed monarch
so that he could offer himself asylum.
 
 
 
 

How Things Work Behind The Scenes In Some Worlds.
The primary reason for becoming a doctor is that it protects you from
ever becoming seriously ill yourself.
And someone asks: “Are those real worlds you are referring to?”
and someone else asks: “A better question still:
does this apply to those who offer to wake up others from their dream?”
 
 
 
 

And one man wished he were a prince in forbidden love with a commoner
so that he could abdicate the throne.
   “And this is somehow tied to how the mind works?”
 
 
 
 

How One Thing Was Made To Work Out On The Plains.
On his property, one man had a main house and an outhouse;
he lived in the latter and only built the former so that the outlaws and bad guys
who came looking for him would naturally attack the wrong structure.
And someone says:
“I truly hope this one has to do with something other than it sounds like!
Phew!  --  what a stinky life that would be  --  Hey!  --  wait a minute.....
.....I b’lieve I’m startin’ to get it...."
 
 
 
 

Sometimes one man wished he were a serious illness
so he could hold a lengthy, entertaining telethon for himself.
  “But deep down in their nervous system isn't everyone already a  -- ah, never mind.”
 
 
 
 

How Things Work In The Film Industry Of The Mind.
The first thing they teach in Script Writer's School is that when you can’t decide
what the plot should do now  --  go to a flashback.
 
 
 
 

For years and years: every day was about the same in one man’s mind;
then every day there became so different from the previous one as to be spooky,
(he says he has no better word for it).
 
 
 
 

One man who watched a lot of television
one day wondered if maybe television was actually watching him.
   “And I take it this is also supposed to be related to what happens in a man’s mind.”
 
 
 
 

Feeling happy always made one man feel depressed,
and a son asked a father: “Why do you sometimes speak of the mind,
and other times of thoughts?”
   “’Cause I’m some times stupid.”
 
 
 
 

On one world: no one is allowed to criticize an artist’s work except another artist  --  and of course, a true artist would have no criticism
(repeat this to yourself,  substituting for: “artist” – “a man who knows.”)
 
 
 
 

After experiencing a string of unfavorable events,
one man decided that he would name his life: “You Call This A Life?!”
and his life said: “Careful! --  you don’t want to get me started!”

Some men should remind themselves that anger and confusion is not a code.





Toward the end of his comments, which had been filled with quotes from,
and references to many of history’s acclaimed minds,
a speaker in city park said that at least one thing he had learned from
the thinkers who had: “Gone before him” was that they were definitely gone.

Some men should remind themselves that in a herd:
the ignorance of all is the ignorance of one.





Just as soon as anyone new first meets this one man he immediately says to them: “Yeah, I know what you’re thinking    ----    everyone does.”
 
 
 
 

How Deep Physics Works Behind The Scene.
At one level: unopposed strength would be disastrous;
nearest to an exception is the certain man’s understanding of things.
While for the routine circumstances of his personal life,
an ordinary man can be neither too dumb, nor too smart,
the larger situation plays itself out in man collectively to be that
he mentally can never be too  --   just-right:
in the intangible realm: tepidity and uncertainty cannot be overdone;
in the world that exists only by virtue of man’s thoughts and words,
conclusive knowledge is not possible:

not comprehending this is like constantly living part of your life in a make believe land and never noticing it:
the anomalous few do  --    then struggle to stop it.






Only In The City.
By the pond in the park a man with grimace on his face & annoyance in his voice declares to all who will listen that many, many of his worst expectations
are l-o-n-g overdue.

Only the man who understands how life works
can unthinkingly tolerate the unavoidable, and impossibly affect it:
what greater boon there be to an elephant than
breaking free of its cocoon?!
 
 

J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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