“Dear Doctor: Is there one sure fire way to determine that you are normal?”
    “Like in: ordinary?”
“Okay: ordinary.”
    “Yes: you like to be told what to do.”
“That’s it?”
    “What else is there.”
 
 

Conversation.
“The separation of the starving & desperate from the full & complacent
is the invisible wall of civilization  --  which is visible only from one side.”
    “And I assume you mean for this to be further taken as a comment
      regarding the situation in man’s mind.”
“The theory that the rich getting richer will result in the poor becoming rich
is equally fallacious regarding the ultimate coming together of the rich part of the mind that has the capacity to understand what is going on, and the part that is poor
and does not.”
 
 

While the ordinary commonly say man’s greatest folly is waging wars over religion,
the supreme foolishness is in their study-of and expertise-in such things as religion.
The land’s grand clown is not the court jester but he proud of his Doctor’s degree
in any of the liberal arts.
To the certain man’s eye: this presents an interesting and metaphorically informative scene: the seriously deluded being not the followers of religion,
but rather those who believe they are learned experts therein.
Of what pants-splitting significance might it be for Jack Sprat’s tailor
to suddenly realize the actual location of his operation?!
 
 

The Alpha & Omega Of Everything Human Troubling.
Trying to find solutions to intangible problems is the cause of the problems.
   “But it is not possible for the result of an action to be its cause.”
Yes  --  everyone knows that.
 
 

Head’s Maidenhead Revisited.
If to you the moniker of life is not, fun,
then you know it by its married name.
   “That is not a very precise statement inasmuch as there is no common agreement
     on what constitutes fun: it’s different for everybody."
True: it is different for all ordinary people, but for the few:
there is only one fun worthy of the name.
   “And I shouldn’t expect that you’re going to tell me what it is?!”
Telling a man without a plane how great things look from up high
doesn’t accomplish much.
 
 

Non Standard Neurology News.
What men in the city call their thinking is what the outlier sees as the brain’s perfunctory commenting on any subject at hand.
Commonly are a hippo’s farts taken to be comments coming from the parrot
atop its head.
“No! --  certainly I have never thought  about the matter you mentioned,
but that does not preclude me from giving my opinion of it  --
which in truth, bears as much relationship to actual thinking as did what you said
when you raised the subject.”
 
 

After having toured the Believe It Or Take The Tour Again Museum,
one man dismissively huffed:
"No, no!  --  not even close:
the most amazing thing ever is that some say men think too much.”
 
 

Although the head can be an awfully  small place in which to live  --
it also can never be too large for the nervous system rebel.
When you realize what constitutes the walls of the room in which you’re trapped  --  they’ll then point the way to freedom for you.
 
 

The Seriality Of It All In The City.
One man began to so despise the number twenty
that he refused to even think of nineteen.
Fact: Even before you fully know what you’re doing,
you can understand that what you’re doing now is turkey shit.
The tacit cry of the rebel is: “Let’s get on with it!”  --
always, eternally and never-ceasing-to-be-valid: “Let’s get ON with it!”
(Definition.Waking-up: Life’s only inexhaustible hobby.)
 
 

News Flash From The Worlds Of Religion & Patriotism, et al.
All rituals practiced by the civilized are proof of their lingering savagery.
 
 

Soon after he started TheGrandAdventure one man began saying to his brain:
“Thanks a lot”  --
    something he still does  --
        but now in a different tone of voice.
 
 

One man mused:
“If I don’t look in my mouth  --  my teeth won’t ever hurt.”
(Note: The appointment book of man’s collective mind is set up in such a way
that this type of musing cannot be fitted into ordinary people’s schedules.)
 
 

Graffiti discovered in the restroom of city college’s Philosophy department:
“Some are born to anonymity  --  others have it thrust upon them.”
 
 

Urban Ophthalmology.
Easy to realize  --  near impossible to remember regarding city affairs is that:
Just because you believe you see what men say is going on
doesn’t mean that you realize what is going on.
What has occurred when every person around you says they saw Galahad ride by  --  and now you feel that you probably did?            (That is: What profitably has occurred?)
 
 

Everyone is automatically civilized once  --
those who go no further, always suffer therefrom.