Expanded Coverage Of A Previously Reported Story:
All men are captives pushed daily into an arena wherein they are manhandled by beasts, but never so injured that they do not the next day return.
Ordinary men take the beasts and themselves to be one, while a few wonder how things in man’s head came to be thus. Their curiosity results in the desire for another arena of the mind: theirs is THE ITCH TO AWAKEN.
There was a bat who lived by radar. A man caught the bat and ate him, but just the upper part, with the antennae. “Do you mean the upper part of the bat or the man?”
Fact:
The, brains-of-everyone’s-operations is programmed to feed on that which is a rung below itself.
Question:
Who decides who man’s thoughts will feed on?
Fact:
A judge can try himself, but a D.A. cannot prosecute himself.
Question:
If you do have to go down that obscure road alone, why pretend that someone is with you when you know better…and they do too.
The speaker, (who some believed was a profit), shouted to the assembled: “What is worse than greed?” And they shouted back: “Inattentiveness!” Then he cried: “What is worse than envy?” And they cried back: “Inattentiveness!” Then he bellowed: “And what is worse than pride?” And they bellowed back: “Inattentiveness!” Then he tried: “Well what is worse than all forms of prohibited behavior put together?” And they shouted back loud and clear: “Inattentiveness!” And the speaker turned to his assistant and whispered in amazement: “Wow, where did you ever find such a crowd?”
(“Ahh” mused one man, “If I but had such an ongoing scene inside of me.”)
J.