*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

The Secret Man's Surefire Spotter's Guide For Identifying The Insane:
Anyone who takes what they say to be serious and meaningful is nuts.

In the public forum, among those claiming to be religiously, even mystically, propelled,
the subjects under discussion remain always confined to H.F. and F. -- Health, Feelings,
and Finances. Whilst beneath the city streets the truly driven are, at least at one time,
interested in almost everything else but such matters.

How long (I ask you), how long must these two groups stay so far apart?
(And since I "axed," I'll answer. For friggin' ever! if the likes of us are lucky.)

And in regard to such affairs, a father shook his head and said to a son:
"How do you figure?"
"I don't," replied the lad.
"Ahhh," looked down and sounded the elder, "I see our positions begin to reverse."
"You taught me no less than well," said the child.

Now tell me this, how can you individually not do the same for yourself?

Technical Footnote:
The truly pathological and potentially dangerous are
those who talk about things, that can't be seen, as though
they are of consequence.

You should always be alert and on guard that you do not come into close
contact with such people -- especially within yourself.

Here's to your good mental health, that is, that you be free from a mental life.

Only a man with no concern about anything (that's A,N,Y,T,H,I,N,G -- no
concern about anything) can be called Enlightened.

A pig who believes he is in slop
will in slop forever be.

From our dictionary:
A "Healthy Man" is he who does not let anything harm him
that can't be seen -- at least through a microscope.

To be ordinary-in-the-head is to be asleep, in the dark, and ill, and to be
so "ill" is to be sick from invisible causes, and to be so sick from invisible
causes is to be ordinary, asleep, and in the dark.
Get it? Now do you see how it works, if you allow it?

The virus that afflicts the few lives in words, and once you begin to get
well you realize that the virus is words.

That nonstandard physician then said, "Be quiet completely, and you won't
have to call me in the morning -- or ever again."