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 JUNE 17, 2004                                                                         © 2004: JAN COX

 



Men of ordinary mind are only deeply tickled by food, sex or feelings of spirituality,
(which is like mistaking pasta for pornography);
the man who gets-to-the-bottom-of-things is funnified in a fashion unknown to
everyone else. (Except maybe a coati-mundi in a cutaway coat).
 

Conversation.
 “I have devoted thirty years of personal research to the problem.”
     “And?”
“And what?”
 

Once he was old enough to realize the implications of not having been born
part of the privileged class, one man (raising a pistol to his head) said:
“I’ll take my chances on my next time around.”
(Good thing his primary interest in life wasn’t wanting to wake up.)
 

From The Show Biz Front.
One of the first questions he was asked in the interview was:
“What drew you to the role of playing yourself?”
 

“After thirty years of living in a repressive state, I am certainly ready for freedom,”
so declared a man under the domination of a foreign power
(who by the way lives right above you.
P.S. Not all stories about governing are about political affairs.)
 

Confab.
“Just because you don’t understand something
doesn’t mean there is nothing there to be understood.”
    “Yes it does.”
“Really!?   Wow!  –  I didn’t know that.”
 

Question: What could be more satisfying to a captive’s secondary soul
than to deliriously ride the crest of the prison’s: Thought For The Day.
 

One man’s private approach to dealing with ordinary people is C & N:
being cordial & non committal.
    (“You could act the same way toward your own innate thoughts.”)
 

Captain You-Surely-Knew-That stopped in to say that
everyone tries to appear hipper than they really are.
He then flew off to continue spreading his various important
(though should-be-obvious) comments for the betterment of all of humanity.
 

As soon as he heard the opening words of the ad:
“You may shake, sweat or feel panicky…” he leaped to his feet and hollered:
“I’ll buy it!”
(Operating perhaps under the philosophy: Better safe than stupid.)
 

If you run with a toy you don’t really like  --  you’re more prone to drop it.
   (“Okay!  –  I’ve had it!    I demand that you tell me right now what this has to do with
      waking up!?”)
 

Numbers.
The authority of three lies in its complete coverage of spatial reality;
the impact of two is in its control of things polarized,
and the power of one is in its exclusivity.
    “Stand back!  –   make way!  –   here comes the king!”

      Yes it's me  –  me and I,
      and all must submit  –  to me, by and by;

      numbers can reveal  –  what letters cannot see,
      is to me that you must come  –  for objectivity.

      It is all in my hands  –  it is all in your mind,
      the knowledge that you seek  –  is predetermined found.

                       Here comes the king  –  here by gawd, I come!”
 

In the middle of trying to make his point the speaker said:
“Let me tell you something personal about me in this regard…”
and the audience as one cried out: “No!” and arose to leave  –
only to realize that heads have no doors.
 

If anecdotes about one’s life were as interesting as men appear to believe they will be to those who hear them,  then why don’t you laugh about missing your train
at the time it happens?
    (“All right mister know-it-all, then how come history and ecstasy rhyme?”)
 

Says one guy:“I never feel more embarrassed about my stupidity than when I
catch myself thinking about how embarrassing is someone else’s stupidity.”
 

The kid asked the ole man: “Are you really as nice as you seem?”
    “Don’t be a smart ass: you are the one person in the whole world who
     knows the answer to that.”
 

You have to be a person of your own to be able to treat others IMpersonally.
 

The brain is a scale  –  and men are born with the embedded impression that
its conscious part is a butcher with an unlimited meat supply.
    (“Here comes the ham!  –  here comes the ham!”)
 

Dialogue.
“Words are to reality as music is to dancing.”
    “I would say not even that much.”
“Okay  –  I can go that far.”
(And in steps the Maxim Man to mark this moral):
“No matter how far you stretch words around reality,
they can always go a bit further (as in): denying what they’ve just said,
(now ask yourself): Can mere reality do that?     No-o-o-o!
So!  --  let us bring to a conclusion all this churlish vilification of words  –  okay?  –
--  all right.”
 

One historian says he scans each decade for a headline exemplary of the era,
(he has a half brother who does the same for every real time instant.
    “Just think, if I was here now  –  where I would be.”)
 

To think beyond horizons you must first be able to recognize the horizons,
(and do note): those in confinement have a severely limited view.
 

Adopting a philosophy can not only be fun, but it can also keep you from thinking,
(that is): in the manner of non captives.
 

Real escape information eats its own footprints.
    (“Is that why it is so hard to find maps that are practical?”)
Having an escape philosophy can save you from ever trying to actually get free.
 


Deeds don’t traumatize the civilized  –  words do;
King Arthur can be psychologically harmed by verbal assaults, but not Charlemagne.
(Just one of the several benefits of being an actual person.)
 
 

J










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