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Saturday, December 02, 2006

 

The Mirror: Mental caste mark

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: Nobody can do without the worship of their own secret part of their own mind.
W: Are you talking about "self-esteem"?
M: You might want a reward, though.
W: There is not much reward in that warmed-over meal, "self-esteem."
M: Nothing wrong with a few well-placed pats on the back.
W: It hurts a little to pat one's own back.
M: Ah, you like hearing things that are no particular challenge.
W: Challenge is highly overrated.
M: You are seeking certitude?
W: It would be nice, like an easy chair.
M: We are having a conversation right now through an electronic medium.
W: But I think it is going swimmingly.
M: So that's why we write poetry, to shake things up a little.
W: But not to go as far as Berryman.
M: My goodness!
W: All right then, if we go as far as Berryman, there may be tragedy ahead.
M: Right, not that.
W: We want to stay safe.
M: Kangaroo?
W: Hiding in a kangaroo pouch, down under.
M: You're really trying me.
W: You don't like puns and wordplay?
M: What are my resources?
W: You can easily go online, in fact you are online.
M: Hiding in a kangaroo pouch, down under.
W: Do you feel that being online hides you?
M: What did I figure out?
W: I don't know what you surmised.
M: Do you feel that being online hides you?
W: It hides my physical being.
M: Do you think insecurity is cool?
W: I prefer insecure people to aggressive ones.
M: We want to stay safe.
W: Actually, one may not be safe with insecure people, they may attack.
M: I'm just as implicated.
W: You rarely attack me.
M: Did you suspect me of socialist principles?
W: I don't mind if you have such principles, as long as you don't foist them.
M: I'm just going to let the whole thing slip by, as if it never happened.
W: Pretend I never responded.
M: One elderly woman loved children.
W: Was she a grandmother?
M: When thoughts are streaming in, what happens, who fields them?
W: You get distracted easily.
M: If you try again it won't be an adventure.
W: You don't want to know what I'm going to say?
M: I never saw that movie.
W: That movie is the past.
M: I thought you were inside the play.
W: I am, we all are.
M: I agree with the idea of no-thing.
W: So you'll be a marginal character?
M: An idea in the middle of the forehead.
W: Like a mental caste mark.
M: Insults are better than the alternative.
W: Paying no attention at all?
M: No argument there.
W: When there is no argument, there is no connection?
M: Oh, if only he would!
W: You want him to call you?
M: Where did that come from?
W: You mentioned him in passing.
M: That movie is the past.
W: You refer to a celebrity, then?
M: I am so very happy for you, it seems that you have a very important mission .
W: My mission is to uncover the truth.
M: She had probably been dieting too strenuously.
W: That was easy to uncover.
M: You're the one with the special talent.
W: I have an uncovery talent.
M: Are we adopting a bluff conversational tone?
W: To be sure.
M: I would like to think so.
W: Well, I have to go.
M: I wonder if winning the Nobel Prize has ever left anybody empty.
W: Saying goodbye will leave a certain emptiness.
M: Yes?
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 3 seconds ... Goodbye!

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