*image by Ben Harubin

On one planet, everyone had a virus, and to keep yourself from getting rid
of it you had to keep talkin'.

Struggling to awaken yourself is like being a patient lying in bed,
and also a doctor standing thereby, but never managing to be both
at the same time.

(Which alone should offer a clue to the cure.)

A lad asked his dad, "How can you tell if you're paying too much attention
to your thoughts?"
"If you're paying any at all," he replied.

And now another installment of "What Haveth They In Common?":
What haveth they in common, the two divergent groups, more awake men and captured spies?
Answer -- the motto of both be "Admit nothing."

Views, views, interviews,
inner views and outer views,
views, views, so many views -- phew!

When one chap heard the term "distortion caused by comment,"
he was perplexed by its presence as he pondered, "Why contrive
such an expression -- in what other end results comment?"