*image by Ben Harubin

All ordinary speech is either:
repetition of previous speech,
criticism of previous speech,
or else new additions to
The Imaginary World Of Speech.

After hearing loud laughter come from his son's room, a father called to him,
"What's going on in there?"
And the lad replied, "Oh, I was just talking to myself, and brought up a stimulating
idea, then said 'why am I telling you this,' then replied to myself 'well, you are my
best friend' -- and that's when I started laughing."

 

The local and specific is always temporary, only the universal, not.

One man says, "I perceiveth there to be two types of mystics:
one which longs for the turning of toads into royalty, the other
which strives for the exploding frog outcome."
Or, as the most enlightened man of 1842 put it:
"Say, I don't wanna be here when I return!"
(And you can wrap your salami in that one, my friend.)

One man's private principle was "concentrate!"
And when his mind would ask where, he'd reply,
"It doesn't matter."

One man had a pack of wild dogs around his house, which for years he
attempted to tame and quiet, but to little avail; he finally hit upon a new approach,
he got them to stop yipping about likes and dislikes, and everything was fine.