*image by Ben Harubin

 

Although no superhero he,
this one man could still be here one second
and gone the next.

One man took up boxing, and quickly went from sparring with actual opponents
to simply shadowboxing with himself. And soon he could beat up on himself
quite smartly, but eventually realized an unexpected fact: no matter how
savagely he attacked himself, and no matter how decisively he appeared to
win -- at the moment -- no victory was ever complete and final as was
possible in matches against other people.

"Daddy, I know this sounds like sports news, but is he--"
"Yes, son, still talking about men's thought-based sensation of themselves."

One man so pondered, "Is it worse to be drunk and act like a drunk,
or be sober and still act like a drunk?"

"Daddy, is he--"
"Yep, you know it."

A man asked a stranger,
"Is the inner problem with which I seem to be struggling really the mind?"
"We can be more precise," replied the stranger, "and say that it is the verbal,
conscious mind."
And at a future date the man did indeed feel, from this, more precise.

There are streams and rivers, and underground streams and rivers;
there are streams and rivers, and there are evaporation, clouds, and rainfall;
there are also (you might note) salt, pepper, ketchup, and mustard,
and also a little of this, and a little of that.
What more can you ask for?

One guy says,
"Both sides of my brain
need their own name."
So he calls the two
Big-Time Jiver and Small-Time Conniver.