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Saturday, January 13, 2007

 

The Mirror: Code-cracking sempstress

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: Ah, you surprised me.
W: What were you in the middle of?
M: A man standing facing a window.
W: Were you reflected on the window?
M: But which one?
W: Well, you just said "a window," so I figured there was only one.
M: Artists of paranoia.
W: People spying on each other through windows, but in masterful vein.
M: There's a difference.
W: Right, we wouldn't want any clueless spies.
M: A little too Zen for me, my friend.
W: Can you really be too Zen?
M: After a suitable period of ravishing reminiscence ...
W: One gives it all up and joins the dojo?
M: Think about it, meaning this.
W: Ah, a koan!
M: I want you to outshine, outstrip all the others.
W: But I thought Eastern religions wanted us to be goalless.
M: How can we dispense with tackiness?
W: By leaving America, but wait, that won't work anymore.
M: (Given, it falls apart)
W: (Taken, it recoheres)
M: He would have to use a pseudonym to get them interested?
W: This Zen master of yours, starting some cult under a false name?
M: Can you really be too Zen?
W: You can go overboard with just about anything.
M: Samuel believed that one error of judgment was enough for a single day.
W: So Samuel went in the corner and sat on a round black cushion.
M: (Taken, it recoheres)
W: The world recoheres.
M: The minute we begin talking to each other. we leave him out of the conversation completely.
W: We ignore the Zen master, after all he is in the corner.
M: But I thought Eastern religions wanted us to be goalless.
W: The idea is to get rid of all desire.
M: It's a good quality.
W: You need desire to motivate you in the Western world.
M: I'm waiting for the inference.
W: The inference is that this Eastern thing sounds like sour grapes.
M: There isn't much that you do like, am I right?
W: Not in terms of human civilization, not nowadays.
M: Well I admit, I don't like talking to the back of somebody's head.
W: You had better move up to the window, then.
M: Good.
W: Now you can see me?
M: So you have to see deep into the molecules?
W: You don't have to look that closely, we're not on a meditation intensive.
M: What order should I put it in?
W: Start with the ordinary social niceties.
M: The science of the peripheral vision in which no discoveries could surface.
W: Well, if you persist in looking around me instead of at me ...
M: Does watching TV make us smarter?
W: It makes us into smart alecks.
M: No I haven't.
W: You haven't become a smart aleck?
M: Seems to me the problems have only just attained their majority.
W: Right, the US was an adolescent culture.
M: Sewing is like making code.
W: A code-cracking sempstress.
M: Start with the ordinary social niceties.
W: They will actually take you quite far around here.
M: You see, it's possible.
W: Yes, if you're willing to schmooze.
M: Start with the ordinary social niceties.
W: Can't be emphasized often enough.
M: Too much sensory input?
W: The brain screens it.
M: You haven't become a smart aleck?
W: I was answering in earnest.
M: Because I just won't be sensible.
W: You weren't designed as such, were you?
M: Did someone give you a gift of jellied eels?
W: No, thank goodness.
M: Wow, isn’t that interesting!
W: What is interesting, is it something out the window?
M: If it's the same thing, it isn't a surprise.
W: Do you look at the same view day after day?
M: What are your requirements for a happy life?
W: A change of scenery now and again.
M: You're not going to give up till the very last guess?
W: I didn't know I was guessing.
M: Say that what you'd really like is not so much to be alone, as to be relieved of my presence.
W: It sounds like you're done.
M: Which may or may not be voluntary, but I don't have to tell you that since you're a member of the same organization.
W: Very astute of you!
M: We were just surfing.
W: And now we've reached shore.
M: No it hasn't.
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 3 seconds ... Goodbye!

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