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Friday, November 03, 2006

 

The Mirror: Ear-conscious

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: This thing is called life.
W: I know what it's called, but how does one master it?
M: I know, I know, Art is its own reward.
W: One should bend one's efforts toward mastering an art?
M: I wonder if that's good for me?
W: You're working on mastering the art of conversation.
M: I think you know a thing or two.
W: I know a lot about conversation.
M: Are you talking about Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web?
W: Tim Berners-Lee facilitated millions of electronic conversations.
M: I knew you did, it was myself who didn't.
W: We are having a conversation right now through an electronic medium.
M: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 was won by Gunter Grass.
W: Our conversation will probably not rise to the level of Gunter Grass.
M: Making one of my major mistakes.
W: What mistake might that be?
M: What are you doing?
W: I am questioning you, giving you a chance to redeem yourself.
M: The novels, mere shadows of what they were.
W: What was Gunter Grass before he wrote his novels?
M: I don't understand but I hope humanity does not prevail.
W: Is the humanity of Gunter Grass at issue?
M: Hesitating?
W: I hesitate to pass judgment on a man whose work I have not read.
M: I know what it's called, but how does one master it?
W: Sounds like you've found Grass' work difficult to read.
M: Everything that comes out ...
W: Is Grass a totalist of some sort, a confessional writer?
M: I know a lot about conversation.
W: But you don't know about Gunter Grass?
M: Well, kooky people are fun and uninhibited, on the surface anyway.
W: Is it you or Gunter Grass who is kooky?
M: Tim Berners-Lee facilitated millions of electronic conversations.
W: Could we have a conversation with Gunter Grass?
M: (Repeat and reverse)
W: Are you reversing your position on Gunter Grass?
M: Are you worshiping me?
W: I am not worshiping you.
M: Getting off on the right foot means false beginnings.
W: We labored under a mutual delusion about Gunter Grass.
M: No answer, is not really an answer.
W: Gunter Grass was on the wrong side in the war.
M: On cloudy days, I hear twice as well, on account of increased interiority.
W: Can you hear under my words?
M: With what do you need assistance?
W: My understanding of your hearing.
M: You mean, if I watch you talking to yourself, you get self-conscious?
W: No, I get ear-conscious.
M: I didn't know you had left, I thought you were still here.
W: My ears had left.
M: I said, there was nothing normal about how I'm acting.
W: Perhaps you're disturbed by the discovery of Gunter Grass' past.
M: Let's have a look.
W: Look in Wikipedia, under "Gunter Grass."
M: Ambivalences.
W: I'd say it's pretty straightforward, and bone-chilling as well.
M: Done for?
W: Yes, the topic is over.
M: Gunter Grass was on the wrong side in the war.
W: That's why we're retiring the topic.
M: Someone who said he was Pinter wants to play poker with you?
W: I would play poker for chips, but not for money.
M: No, I get ear-conscious.
W: You won't even hear of a poker game!
M: (They look at each other, door opens)
W: I hope that's the waiter.
M: My mind can't solve all the problems of all the machines.
W: Don't worry about that, let's have dessert.
M: (Shows simple landscape)
W: Many ethnic restaurants have colorful posters on the wall.
M: Well, can we agree that if it existed, it wouldn't be readily available?
W: Ethnic restaurants exist, but not often in small towns.
M: (Is that what '"Can I come in" always means?)
W: The impossibility of being admitted to the circle.
M: Which kind of tired?
W: Tired of exclusion.
M: Let me write you a check.
W: Finally!
M: I register them in a computer register, or heat register.
W: Melting money.
M: You sound pretty touchy.
W: You misinterpret me, I am happy.
M: Are you one of those people who refuses to be at one with the world?
W: That question is so loaded, I won't let you point it at me.
M: There is no transition.
W: We could use more gray areas.
M: It wasn't said who.
W: Who will provide the gray areas, you or me?
M: Should I leave the room?
W: You had better.
M: Many ethnic restaurants have colorful posters on the wall.
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 5 seconds ... Goodbye!

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