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Saturday, July 15, 2006

 

The Mirror: My Crown of Ions

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: Remaining inside, an unanswerable question, he goes forward.
W: That is three thoughts in one.
M: Just the wall.
W: I came in to see you, and you presented me with a wall.
M: That I am the sum of my parts.
W: Your partial sum makes your total wall.
M: Appear normal, speculate wildly.
W: Behind the wall of normalcy you are engaging in wild spectacle.
M: Oh, please don't do that kind of thing.
W: You don't like it when I make puns?
M: Aren't you going to answer?
W: But I just did, I gave you the best possible answer, Candide.
M: Eels have to be prepared, I saw it in a movie once.
W: Are eels well prepared for the moment of their deaths?
M: Cape.
W: Batman in Batang.
M: It's not an experiment, all I have to do is access Google.
W: Let's see what Google has to say about "Batman in Batang."
M: Your words had no weight of intention, but the weight of material things.
W: Your search, "Batman in Batang," did not match any documents.
M: Batman in Batang.
W: Batang is a typeface.
M: Trying to get back on my good side by mentioning lilacs?
W: Oh, I would never do that.
M: Behind the wall of normalcy you are engaging in wild spectacle.
W: Now you have me pegged.
M: I know, because I read it in a book called The Road to Eleusis.
W: Tell me about the book The Road to Eleusis.
M: Your partial sum makes your total wall.
W: Ally ally in come free!
M: Oh, you're saying I'm hard enough to deal with?
W: Hide and seek.
M: When did you start to talk again?
W: I was silent for many years.
M: Maybe we'd better not, either of us, have something to eat right now.
W: I just ate a full breakfast.
M: How easily he extricates himself from a no-exit situation!
W: But I am a lady.
M: If it works, it's valid?
W: Being a lady does not always work in this society.
M: Right, not that.
W: There is a rapidly spreading thuggishness in the popular culture.
M: The Planet of Lost Souls is an elusive location.
W: I don't think it's so elusive, it's just Planet Earth.
M: I don't know how.
W: Neither does anyone else on Planet Earth.
M: Is that what you remember?
W: I remember nothing, not even my name, rank and serial number.
M: Then I cry.
W: You weep for my lost memory.
M: I rarely imagine winning anything.
W: Today you are depressed.
M: Am I in a position to say the same thing?
W: You can say it if you want to.
M: I don't think it's so elusive, it's just Planet Earth.
W: Planet Earth is depressed.
M: You'd realize you'd been interrupted.
W: If you interrupted me, I would realize it.
M: Do Nobel Prize winners change the world?
W: Nobel Prize winners reap the fruits of the world.
M: She knows the rules of this life on this planet.
W: That I do.
M: I can listen when others are silent around me.
W: What do you do when others are noisy?
M: But here's the thing.
W: Yes?
M: That's how it works.
W: How does it work?
M: Really?
W: It works only in reality?
M: Each single door hides nothing.
W: What do the double doors hide?
M: Wait a minute, what's your life about?
W: My life is about this.
M: Just "fine" is not enough.
W: You thought I gave you a small-talk answer?
M: Quite true, I've been wearing (in the widest sense of the term) a particular suit of reality that drains my sense of reality.
W: The reality-draining suit is very bad for you.
M: Experts can't tell the difference between us?
W: Now you're talking Turing Test.
M: LOL!
W: The Turing Test is laughable, in today's world, that ship has sailed.
M: If we cut down the number of books to just the good ones ...
W: Would Alan Turing's papers be among the worthwhile books?
M: Now I don't know what scene we're in.
W: We're in a drab, hopeless city.
M: I would rather not eat crackers like that.
W: Scenes are something you consume.
M: We're in a drab, hopeless city.
W: Maybe it's East Berlin, before the Wall came down.
M: What effect did you predict?
W: Kind of a Brecht effect.
M: We're in a drab, hopeless city.
W: The City of Mahagonny.
M: Remember I said something about tomorrow?
W: What are you doing tomorrow?
M: I do have the feeling we're back where we started.
W: What are you doing yesterday?
M: To that extent, correct.
W: I have the day right?
M: I know that inside the mind there is a second mind!
W: Is the second mind able to leap from future to past?
M: That is then, the truth of this suitcase.
W: You have a time machine in your suitcase?
M: Are nanotubes an example of Man at his finest?
W: No, I think Man can do better than that.
M: "The Idiot Savant."
W: Man is indeed an idiot savant.
M: Will you tell on me?
W: You want to tell me a secret?
M: You sense a pattern with the five hellos?
W: Who said hello five times?
M: Could you be optimistic about entertaining a hick audience?
W: I guess you have to say hello more than once to make it register.
M: The energy which denies energy.
W: That sounds pretty self-defeating.
M: I can't open it without the strength to open it.
W: You can't open your time-machine suitcase?
M: Reality is death, no matter what Walt Whitman may say.
W: Are you going to die if you can't open your suitcase?
M: You tell me.
W: I think you have a pressing need for time travel.
M: Man is indeed an idiot savant.
W: But you are not a man.
M: What do we do not?
W: We do not speak of gender issues.
M: You want to tell me a secret?
W: No thanks.
M: It does what?
W: It conceals itself.
M: You can't open your time-machine suitcase?
W: I can't go backwards.
M: It's gone.
W: The present moment flitted past us.
M: You tell me.
W: I am telling you all I know.
M: A very great deal is at stake.
W: Then you had better get the parameters very exact.
M: Is this anything to be taken seriously?
W: You just told me it was.
M: Do you get tired of your own children?
W: Sometimes my mind-children wear on me.
M: I am not grateful for crumbly crackers in cartoon colors.
W: Do you like animal crackers?
M: Are you having trouble with the computer?
W: Today I am, I guess.
M: It's all in nothing.
W: Some people think that way, and their thinking infected me.
M: It was invisible.
W: It was visible to me, all too visible.
M: "You had a memory of it."
W: Yes, it is now ingrained.
M: Yet St. Thomas is a serious person.
W: I know very little about Thomas.
M: You tell me.
W: I could look him up on Google, of course.
M: It was visible to me, all too visible.
W: But that's because you are quoting a play.
M: But I'm a little too sophisticated to make that mistake.
W: You mean, you transform it by quoting it?
M: Some people think that way, and their thinking infected me.
W: Is it an infection?
M: My sense of reality is inner.
W: Do people get on your nerves?
M: It was visible to me, all too visible.
W: They get on your nerves just by appearing?
M: No, you never corrected my grammar.
W: OK, then I didn't get on your nerves.
M: Then that proves it.
W: That proves that our relationship is sound.
M: Please do.
W: Quod erat demonstrandum.
M: Probably the best.
W: The best Latin quotes in the world.
M: A follows B.
W: It is all very logical, very cynical, very unemotional.
M: OK, I won't.
W: Don't be.
M: There is a little pageboy to the left of the mirror.
W: He is holding a tray, which I think is for visiting cards.
M: You are just playing with words.
W: I am describing what I see.
M: Let the mysteriousness in you be there, without being controlled by all the things you understand or believe in.
W: I can hardly do anything else, since it is involuntary.
M: Why not?
W: Because it is involuntary.
M: Here is a crown.
W: (Puts on crown)
M: Tell me.
W: You want me to talk today.
M: Don't be.
W: Don't be like that?
M: She is truly beautiful.
W: I look great with my crown on, my crown of ions, Corwin.
M: I can hardly do anything else, since it is involuntary.
W: Your involuntary crown.
M: You are sadly deluded if you think that!
W: OK, your on-purpose crown.
M: There's a window in the next room.
W: What do you see through the window?
M: Are you a Yes machine?
W: Do you see a Yes machine through the window?
M: I mistook you for a world traveler.
W: I have been to Europe.
M: It would be dangerous to point a finger in these days of libel lawsuits.
W: Is it libel to say I have been to Europe?
M: That is one of the reasons I so miss having a radio in my room.
W: European radio?
M: I did.
W: You used to listen to European radio?
M: I do.
W: But not in your room, because you don't have a radio in your room?
M: Am I incoherent?
W: No, you are very clear.
M: Night is a rest from day, and female's a rest from male.
W: Strive for opposites.
M: A little time will pass, you'll want more.
W: But for now I will say goodbye.
M: Your life is about a bird on a boat.
W: (Departs on boat, with bird)
M: Somebody getting off the bus, at the wrong moment, I'm afraid.
W: This is the right moment for goodbye.
M: Ah, my exact words.
W: Bye!
M: Closing in 5 seconds ... Goodbye!

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