*image by Ben Harubin

 

There is no such event as a "one man drama,"
at least two characters are always required.

When you're in bed asleep, dreaming, and become aware that you're dreaming,
it'll cause you to awake from your dreams; not so when you're upright with your
eyes open.

Now the quiz:
Is that last statement true or false?
(And I didn't say does it seem true or false.)

There is no such thing as a "one man conflict,"
it always takes two to collide.

During a still moment between patients,
a doctor gazed out his window and mused,
"Why is it that the overweight and undereducated
make up the majority of the hypochondriacs?..."

Meters don't make machines ill, ills of machinery do.
And diagnoses don't help,
but neither do they harm or help either.

A man who'd hung around the train station for some length of time, apparently confused,
finally approached a dispatcher and asked, "What time does the train run?"
And the dispatcher replied, "What do you mean by 'what time'?"
And the man said, "You know, 'time,' like it's noon right now, so is there a train running
at twelve fifteen?" "Or maybe, twelve thirty? Or did one just leave at eleven forty-five?
That's what I mean."
And the dispatcher replied, "What time did you say it is now?"
And the man said, "Twelve noon."
And the dispatcher said, "Then that's the only time any train ever runs."

(A response that should have cleared up the man's confusion,
but who knows.)

A man with two I's sees conflict, turmoil,
and contradictions all about him.