“There is a planet made of fire and water: first, one has the upper hand, then the other. Beings who live there complain. Half of them complain half of the time, and the other half, the other half of the time. The fire and water pay them no mind…although there are some who say that it is the beings’ minds which are the competing factors. (The fire and water aren’t talking.)
There is a rocket ship endlessly circling Earth which no one can see. Everyone feels its presence, and refers thereto constantly, under a variety of titular guises. If questioned about this feeling, they always look away from themselves as they talk about it – as though somehow knowing that the-ship-is-out-there. Wrong! The endlessly circling ship is in men’s heads.
Over the mountains is a village made up of two separate clans. The village is not made up of two separate clans, but the two separate clans believe this is so, and since there is no one there but them, there is no one to correct this misperception.
One man holds daily classes for himself. He takes roll, checks homework from yesterday (and beyond), and attempts to assign new projects every day. The word, ‘attempts’ appears here because even though he decides that certain new endeavors should be undertaken by the students, (him), neither he nor they can ever come to a firm understanding of exactly which is which, and who is who, (and most glamorous of al), what is maybe. (P.S. In his inner school, he used to have a series of courses that progressed from the basic: “What Is What” to: “Maybe Might BE What” to the more advanced, “Maybe We Should Forget About Maybe,” and finally onto the senior study above noted; “What IS Maybe!” (He sometimes now wonders if he will ever graduate.)
There is an above ground, (way above ground), race who believe that the second reality is more important than the first. (For instance), they say that not only is the pen and word mightier, but also more significant than the sword. Now factor in this and ponder: they have no judicial system. (Well, that is): they have no one capable of making cogent judgments.”
J.