*image by Ben Harubin

 

Lying beside a building, a man found a note that said:
"Inside is open and profitable -- outside, confining and costly."
And as had been the case all of his life thus far,
he wasn't sure where he was, or in what direction he should go.
Students of super-architecture know that they are their own building, and
that notes and directions mean nothing once you're stably oriented.

There was once a man who decided that the weather was his problem, then after much pondering on the situation, concluded that the weather then must also be the solution. And after making efforts he believed pertinent to such a conclusion, he could not discover how to use the weather as a solution to the weather as the problem. So he pondered on up the road
further and eventually adopted the position that if the weather is the problem, but turns out not to apparently be the solution, then at least it must be the path to the solution. And upon ultimately finding this usable, he realized that it applied to everything, everywhere.

--Dice may have six sides, but they're still either right- or left-handed.--

A sign by the road, out past the normal outskirts of life, announced,
"If you're not sure where you are...and don't mind -- welcome!
You may be a mystic in transition."

And one man left his dictionary out in the rain,
and the words "debt" and "death" ran together.

There was once a man in a trap --
he read about people escaping from such traps --
he thought about it and believed that he too could escape --
he tried --
he tried some more --
and some more --
and some more --
but escape, he did not.

Then one day he saw another man reading the same book he had regarding escape, and asked the man's opinion on what it said, and the man replied that he didn't feel right in responding to such an inquiry in that he was the author of the book, which caused the first man to ask why someone who had written a work would then go back and peruse his own ideas -- plus the fact that the book implied that the author had himself already escaped from
the trap.

Well, the author patiently heard the man out, and nodded as if to say that he fully understood the man's puzzlement, then responded to all of his questions and confusion with these words:
"You can escape from a box to find yourself in a cell --
you can escape from a cell to find yourself in a prison --
you can escape from a prison to find yourself in a village --
you can escape from a village to find yourself in a kingdom --
and you can escape from a kingdom only to find yourself on a continent,
on a planet, in a galaxy, in a--"
And the man in the trap suddenly got it.