“The
great thing about being a doctor,” said a doctor,
“is
that you have a professional excuse for your pretensions.”
“Same with being a human,” mused a passing nurse.
After
hearing an orator in the park proclaim:
“All
great thinkers are misunderstood,” one man was so stricken by the idea
that
he stood frozen in his tracks mulling it
for
such a long period of time that the city eventually and erroneously
declared
him an Alternative Historical Landmark.
From
his lab, one investigator has announced that his research shows
that
all of mankind's ideas are connected in only the most tenuous sense --
but
in the strictest fashion.
(The
underwriters of his work now want him
investigated.)
Entertainment
In The City.
Standard
vocalists sing about their life
(which
helps fill up the dead time in their life).
A
mind short of ideas will be long on words.
From
his hospital bed, a man said:
“Being
sick gives you a new view of life,”
and
his visiting siamese twin added: “So does waking-up.”
For
years, one of one man’s favorite slogans was: “Why pay more?”
balanced
by: “Why pass less?”
(He
by the way, was recently found attacked in his home,
which
the police are presently speculating to be the work of a gang of words.)
Said
a father to a son:
“It’s
important to render your garbage so that when you throw it out,
none
of it can later be identified,”
and
the lad felt certain the elder was not referring to actual garbage.
“The
rebel determined to deliver himself to that area outside the city
leaves
no bread crumb trail behind.”
First
thing every morning, one man would frantically look under the bed,
in
the closets, out in the carport for any sign that life had been there
whilst
he was sleeping -- and if he sensed in the positive,
he
would go into the yard and shout to the sky: “Hey! -- get off
my case!”
When
the problem of upkeep enters the picture,
it
is evidence that the matter at hand has passed its useful stage.
(And,
no: this certainly should not be construed as having any application whatsoever
to your thought processes.)
“You
wanna talk miracles,” said a cortex to a heart,
“forget
about walking on fire or seeing aliens,
the
biggest miracle is that we’re still here.”
Ordinary
men think about what they’ve done;
the
certain man thinks about what he understands.
Upon
hearing an orator in city park declare:
“The
ideas of all great minds are so far ahead of their time as to never be
appreciated,”
one
man was outraged to find himself being discussed in public!
What
ordinary men call pride,
the
man-who-knows secretly enjoys in its prototypical form.
As
he passed symphony hall a man mused:
“Being
able to hear music in your head without the presence of an orchestra
is
almost as good as being able to have thoughts without thinking about them.”
A
father talked to a son about a lawn that had no grass,
and
the lad understood that he was speaking of consciousness and thought.
A
fellow who had a dickens of a time with the letter S
(but
could not free himself there from)
came
to an expedient solution by striking R
and T
from his vocabulary.
(The
rebel’s refuse removal of the irrelevant.)
For
years one man suffered a headache;
then
a special diagnostician examined him and said: “Well, no wonder.”
Definitions
Across the Galaxy.
Fate:
The belief that the natural laws of the universe cannot be affected.
Magic:
The belief that the natural laws of the universe can be affected.
Religion:
A place to go where you don’t have to think about it -- Oops! -- misfiled:
that is the definition of: Ordinary
Mind.
Any
appearance of futuristic data that is not contemporaneously systematized
will
be ignored;
futuristic
data that is
systematized will be subverted,
which
is why (for those of futuristic consciousness) -- tomorrow never
comes --
not
their personal
tomorrow.
Man’s
natural mental state is not so much one of consciousness
as
it is a vague thinking-about-consciousness.
Definition
From The Rebel’s Literary Dictionary.
Metaphors:
Symbolism for the faint hearted.
City
mind says: “I am not adverse to being told (in a figurative fashion)
how
things really are -- as long as the figuration keeps a decent distance
from
the
reality of how things really are.”
Only
fully expanded consciousness can ever realize what life is actually about.
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