Ordinary men get “strength” from religion, alcohol, companionship, nationalism,
but for a real man, there is only one strength that is real, permanent and meaningful.
(And he doesn’t “get” it from some where or some thing.)

On one world, for as long as memory serves, the preeminent creatures have been trying to stop the sun from appearing each day;
one lad, at an early age, realized the futility of this effort;
tried a couple of times to point this out;
to no avail;
then ceased to worry about.

For years one man watched TV every night, but then realized he could turn on the radio and lie on the couch in the dark bitching about the programming and get the same effect (plus he didn’t have television’s bright glare disrupting the otherwise peaceful darkness).

Whilst suffering the intense pain of losing a toe he had smashed, a man mused:
“Life must experience its own anguish when such incidents as earthquakes occur
and thousands of its human extensions are wiped away in a fell swoop;
next to my suffering, this must be on a scale unimaginable to tmy poor mortal mind --
but still,” he quietly whined, “my foot hurts like a muther.”

In an effort to increase octane & performance, one man put a “seriousness additive”
in his mental fuel tank which enabled him to go no where faster.
Myth says there was once a promising civilization that collapsed from a lack of gravity.
    “Which definition of gravity are you talking about?”
Which one do you think?

One man considers his own thinking the prime suspect.
(Though he’s still unsure the specific crime.)

Only words can be grave,
acts can be deadly, but only words can be grave.
    (“So you're saying that while cutting your tongue when licking an envelope can be
       disastrous, discussing the postal service’s incompetence is what proves to be
       truly distressing!?”)

On none of the inner-office emails one man sends his mind does he ever bother listing a Subject (since they're all about the same thing).

One man named his self Head Of Security --
finding his self well qualified  --
since he had nothing worth protecting.

As he dressed in the gym, a mental weightlifter mused:
“If week-old ideas carried the same aroma as equally aged socks,
I might be making faster progress.”

In the second-reality, celebrity is commonly compensation for lack of originality.

Men’s general attitude toward strangers is a hormonal reflection of his mind’s approach to new ideas.
And this email just in from a reader:
”Sir: Sometimes what you write sounds to me like psychology, and at other times
like biology, even physics, but mostly it seems like a matter of all forms of knowledge having a feast of itself.
Am I wrong?
Sincerely,” etc.

In light of the neural- rebel’s goal, all self-reference is an attempt to hide something.

A man who will tell you what he likes and doesn’t like, were he a rebel,
would be a traitor to the revolution.

The truly hip are not de-hipped by time.

You will never hear a man who understands-what's-going-on offer a description of “how he lives his life, ”(i.e. by this or that philosophy or guiding principle).

Instead of being limited to psychiatrists & rabbis, on one world you face severe
judicial punishments if you lie about your condition to a dentist.

Said a son to a father:
“Years ago you once said to me that guns can't hurt you, but bullets’ll can make you wish you'd stayed in bed, and today it just hit me that you were talking about the mind and certain kinds of thoughts.”

“I always have this to fall back on,” declared the Fall Back Man,
“all the world’s geniuses were shrimps with poor eye sights and large noses,”
and upon making this declaration, fell back once again.

When a party is in full gallop one man will often cry out:
“Hippo tranquillizers for everyone!”
    (“Is this a party of synapses?”)

One man’s primary exercise is bitching (“It’s better than lying on the couch doin’ nuthin’.”)

A son asked a father:
“Based on all you have said over the years regarding the subject,
are there any conditions under which one should take the idea of stupidity seriously?”
   “Yes, if you are either stupid or serious.”

Wherever he is, one guy is liable to look all around him and say:
“I am definitely in my element!”
   “Which is?”
“Life.”