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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

 

The Mirror: I see goodness, I carry it in my mind

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: The language machine stopped.
W: Does that mean you cannot speak?
M: It drives me like nothing else.
W: Tell me about this language machine.
M: I think short-term memory is only about 5 seconds long.
W: So you can't remember new words?
M: Continue.
W: I was going to say "neologisms."
M: I don't always get satisfactory answers.
W: Do my answers pass muster?
M: Thanks, but I've just been reading David Lodge.
W: David Lodge sets his sights a bit higher than I can fly.
M: Unless what you wrote is really something that is really, deeply, beyond me.
W: Well, if your short-term memory is only 5 seconds, max --
M: Tell me again what's already decided.
W: I've decided to go in 5 minutes.
M: In court.
W: I don't have to go to court.
M: That will augment the process of mentation.
W: I can think better without a prosecuting attorney breathing down my neck.
M: But we understand goodness.
W: Goodness may be deeply buried.
M: Then it could have been this.
W: What is this?
M: There is much less flesh after you make yourself tiny.
W: Scraping down to the essential, morally, as well?
M: Fear of complication?
W: Yes, better to stick to the essential goodness, if one can.
M: What is this?
W: It is easily recognized, though hard to describe.
M: Seeing and thinking are linked.
W: I see goodness, I carry it in my mind.
M: No one knew.
W: They thought I was incapable of such a task?
M: What other word?
W: The neologism.
M: I guess it's better than the burlap handkerchiefs so prevalent around here.
W: Hair shirts are not the way to goodness.
M: I refilled the bottle with tap water.
W: Are you living on bread and water in a religious cell?
M: The thunder of cherry bombs.
W: Sounds like a number of prankish religious are kicking up didoes!
M: If she was very quiet, it meant that she was brooding.
W: But when she set off a cherry bomb, 'twas an epiphany!
M: Why should I have feelings about things like that?
W: One needn't, one may state them quietly and objectively.
M: So in retrospect ...
W: In retrospect, the whole nun career was a flash in the pan.
M: The room was still whirling, participating in many different lives.
W: That was the epiphany stage.
M: But you can't do anything more than imagine the pain.
W: I don't think pain tonic.
M: I could say it was 6:51 pm.
W: But you would be prevaricating?
M: Well, they're not your weak point, Oliver.
W: So they (the times) must be my strong point.
M: Then I made a mistake.
W: You made a mistake in my name.
M: So they (the times) must be my strong point.
W: I think they're one of your weak points.
M: Does B represent a newcomer to Manhattan?
W: Only in A's opinion.
M: But you would be prevaricating?
W: I would be confabulating.
M: Can you pretend to expect?
W: I expect I must go now.
M: You're hoping against hope that it's worse than you thought.
W: I hope for better times.
M: Good idea, since the Cantos are pretty complicated.
W: Just read Canto I, and you'll be all set.
M: Can that be called figuring it out?
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 1 second ... Goodbye!

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