On one world, men’s minds are directly linked to their stomachs.
”Heyyyy, what’s unexpected about that?!”
A certain projectionist, overhearing all of this, pondered:
”If my thoughts didn’t make the film seem so jerky – would irony even be visible?”
Definition: Being awake is like wearing a suit made from seamless cloth, while being of ordinary mind is going around in tatters. The enlightened, if anything, are fashionable: unseen, unchanging, non-hip, non-square, non-repellant – fashionable.
On one world, men’s minds are directly linked to life.
“But Papa, isn’t that true for men everywhere?”
“Yes, but most people believe that it is something else they hear talking to them. Everyone has a radio, and the same programs go out to everybody. Being awake is knowing the correct names of the shows.”
One man had two beds in which he engaged in two kinds of sleep. One was parallel to the floor, the other perpendicular.
…and the Musical Muse of Picket moaned:
“Don’t fight it, just feel it! Feel it!”
J.