Oct 30, 2003 12:10
I just started a new book and Ive barely begun and its awesome, just the writers perspective is awesome, so I thought Id type in a bit I thought was a really good view on things.
"I have a tough time just being myself, you know at parties and such. I start talking to someone and suddenly I am no longer myself, that some other self has taken over. The less active the body the more active the mind. I had been sitting for days, and my mind made this curious excursion into a tangential problem: Let's say my shopping lists consists of two items: Soy sauce and talcum powder. Soy sauce and talcum powder could not be more dissimaliar. Soy: tart and salty. Talc: smooth and silky. Yet soy sauce and talcum powder are sold in the same store, the grocery store. Airplanes and automobiles, however, are similar. Yet if you went to a car lot and said, "These are nice, but do you have any airplanes?" they would look at you like you're crazy. So heres my point. This question Im flopping around-what it means to act life myself-is related to the soy sauce issue. Soy and talc are mutually exclusive. Soy is not talc and vise versa. I am not someone else, someone else is not me. Yet we are available in the same store. The store of existence. This is how I think, which vividly illustrates mensa's loss. Thinking too much also creates the illusion of casual connections between unrelated events. Like the morning the toaster popped up just as a car drove by with arizona plates. Connection? Coinidence. Must the toaster be engaged in order for a car with arizona plates to come by?"
very nice.