When it became clear that the kingdom would soon be under attack by the
combined armies of the hair dressers and interior decorators,
the King (being an up-to-date, with-it kind of guy) directed his Minister Of Defense: “Arm the poets!”  –  to which he demurred:
   “Your Grace, I would not do that.”
“And why should we not give our poets guns?”
   “Because My Lord, in spite of your vast knowledge and experience,
     artists are crazier than even you suspect  –   plus they feel no allegiance to power.”
(Noodled a spider on the wall, “Consciousness could learn a lot from Court,
it sure as hell has from consciousness.”)
In man’s second reality: All institutions are reflections of some feature of consciousness, and every facet of consciousness has its manifestation in
man’s intangible realm.
     (“Ain’t it downright tricky  –   and NEAT!”)
 
 
 

Long and careful observation of how commonly do people
(including public figures and experts: misspeak: say something they clearly did not intend to  –  and never notice it)  brought one man to ponder:
“Is it a reflection of them not carefully listening to other people when they speak,
and thus assuming no one does so to them,
or is it that no one actually listens intently to the specifics of what anyone else says (except under the most uncommon of conditions),
or might it simply be that no one actually listens to their self when they talk  –
a case of: What’s the point of a ventriloquist dummy paying any attention to
what comes out of his mouth, and apparently  his hollow head?”
(He smiled, shuddered and added: “I love the kind of shivers I get when I think of stuff like this.”)

After finding a wire service by which he could send-money-quickly,
one man discovered synapses by which he could do so ideas.
(“I have found distinct profit in transferring certain outside commercial approaches
to my inner head operations.”)
 
 

Dialogue.
“Even combined: all the understanding of all city intellectuals
would amount to very little.”
    “How little?”
“Never enough to comprehend what it means to be in the city.”
 
 
 

The ole man told the kid:
“There are two forms of hip: Those who appear to be, and those who don’t let on.”
 
 
 

Observes one chap: “If (as some are wont to say)  human existence is a drama,
then I suggest as its name: The Bend Over Theatre.”
 
 
 

Conversation.
“There are three ways not to get needlessly upset by things that have no significance to you personally:
one is to not listen to them recounted, and two is to not talk about them yourself."
    “And what’s number three?”
“Get a brain!”
  (And from behind a door his mama muttered: “Now you say it.”)
 
 
 

A secret one guy holds: “Better than the effects of a laxative on your stomach
is internally scoffing at other people’s stupidity.”
 
 

People attempt to display their insightfulness (and unwittingly do so their ordinariness) by stating (in a slightly whiny tone) something about some matter that is (or should be) obvious; then raising their voice at the end of their comment to convey both the urgency of the matter and the fact that they alone have grasped it.

One guy says he’s changed his mind’s nickname from: Cuts & Bruises to: Four-Of-A-Kind.
 
 
 
 

The speaker said:
“You won’t become famous unless you want to be;
you won’t become rich unless you want to be,
and you won’t become powerful unless you want to be.
Are there any questions?”
    “How about becoming enlightened?”
“Tsk tsk!  –  people are going to think you were paid to toss me such a softball.”
 
 
 

One man told each of his many children:
“If to you your consciousness doesn’t say the funniest things in the world  –  something is wrong.”
 
 
 

A nice overlooked feature of watching television, movies and reading books is that when so doing, consciousness can get so immersed therein that it can go off on
its own private spree with almost no chance of it becoming aware of what it is doing:
in other words: it can go wild in a way that constructively amounts to being a
secret from itself.
 
 
 

The governmental structure on one star is such that if you vote for a man,
it is your right at a future date to assassinate him.
(Some have talked of trying to transpose this concept internally.)
 
 
 

One man advises: “If the motto of your kingdom is: ‘Act first  –  ask questions later,’ every other day you should swap places with someone in an adjoining territory.”