If Not Immediate & Individual, It Should Be of No Consequence
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#965 Apr 27, 1992 – 1:00
Notes by TK
Kyroot to :37. Growth is universal and appears to have no sustaining nutrient and is thus rendered further invisible to ordinary eyes, whereas at the local level all activity has an identifiable, concrete cause/nutrient.
The Revolution both exists and doesn’t exist…but so does everything else.
Real change is not anecdotal (otherwise how could anybody know change takes place?)
Drugs are to Mary as Mary is to the Lamb.
History is always sequential, secondary; there is no PL (Primary Level) history. Historical impact is always after the fact and generational, therefore of no consequence to the Neural Revolutionist because not immediate and individual.
The News
…and Kyroot began again with an ever-popular travel tale: Just before the plane was scheduled to take off, it exploded…. which many passengers simply mistook as a bus trip.
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A thing coming forth in the secondary world that’s not worthy of criticism and opposition will prove to be a stillbirth.
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Many of those who claim to live upstairs actually live downstairs, but those trapped on the middle floors have a hard time telling for sure.
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In the city, those who can’t explain what they do will sure as hell try.
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Under certain city conditions part of the purpose of having a barn door is to prove that it can be closed too late.
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Then we were all graced with another reading from “The Book Of Grand Illusions:” “Those who built the machines control the machines.”
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A civilized world is a talking world.
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…and Kyroot left this note under your pillow: Those who do not favor growth and change are already dying.
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Then pro tem mayor Kyroot gave out another city lesson in: “Shut Up, Sit Down, And Get It Over With Already”: No matter how you bitch — you’re still gonna play.
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…and Kyroot noted: Anything a human says that is repeated then has a second meaning.
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Fragment of a dialogue between two real close friends, held in a real close space: “Those who worry about their personal life have nothing better to worry about.” “IS there anything better to worry about?” “No.”
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In man’s continuing struggle to become more intelligent and civilized, ordinary minds see either immediate, specific, and purposeful battles that are of concern to them personally, or else mere random and meaningless violence taking place just over the horizon in some stranger’s territory.
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After falling down some stairs, and being the recipient of a fine blow to the head, a certain city professor told his son, “A man who knows all the cliches — by god — just about knows it all, (by god).”
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From Kyroot’s Kitchen this convoluted, though convivial culinary clue: That which entertains a man is that which also snacks on him.
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Over in one reality a certain god said, “The best part about being a god is that no one can tell you what to do.” And his sister noted, “Yeah, but it’s also the worst part.”
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Bumps are local — smoothness, universal.
…..follow-up nudge: In this sense — bumps are anomalies, problems.
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The only development that is worthwhile in one lifetime is one that has an invisible, parallel counterpart.
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Bugs are local — exterminators, your imagination.
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Battle Tip: If a real king tells you beforehand what he plans to do — he’s just joshin’. …(And a listener thinks, “I still say this ‘king business’ actually has something to do with the very center of my own mind. …[But I just c-a-n-‘t quite put the old-finger on it.])
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A young lad (with some promise) began to picture his ordinary mental processes as, “Running with the dead.”
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Further Undecoded Info From Life: How a physician — the treater OF life — is called upon to officially verify the LACK thereof (to pronounce death): Thus he in charge of health is also charged as the final attendant to the ultimate state of dis-health. …(A man once thought: “When something surprising is pointed out to you and it seems too simple, there are two possibilities afoot: One is that it’s too simple to be seen, and the other, that it’s too complex.”)
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Over near the new city parking deck a man says that he’s had to quit apologizing for himself to his friends and those who know him, ’cause he says that if he’s really going to be fair about it, it’d take up all his available time.
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At a local, personal level most men consider “intellectual progress” as the addition of an Index to a set of encyclopedias.
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A man with a pen, a laptop computer and a machine gun can always get a seat on the bus….(but he’ll still have to get off where everyone else does).
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At the designated hour when all lights were supposed to be turned out, and the electricity and chemistry shut off, there would sometimes be heard a sharp rap on the door and a voice saying, “You haven’t slipped any modifiers into your room, now have you?!”
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A correspondent asks: “If man’s future is so tied to the intellect, and all of his past progress likewise based, then why are his heroes still men of physical accomplishment?” Many forced emigres from Macedonia look back on their homeland fondly, as do men on their childhood.
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A chap in speakers’ park addressed the passersby: “Everyone wants to be The King’s Spokesman ’cause then you can sound important without having any idea what you’re talking about.”
…(And a man in the crowd thought, “Same with our city news reporters.”)
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One mother, in her efforts to help direct her next generational spread in the certain uses and control of the upper neural processes, told her kids, “Limit your day dreams to Lambs tap dancing.”
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No matter what he said, this one guy always had an answer for himself. …(“Which,” he added, “is but one more advantage to conversing with an idiot of my intelligence!”)
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…and someone with access to a typewriter said — wrote: Civilians live in an absolutely hilarious world, but of course being civilians, they don’t realize it.
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Back by the dry cleaners again, another gent approached me and said he’d seen our last several shows and was having one heck of a time trying to figure out how I was using the word “random” as a thing rather than a condition (which the dictionary still confirms). He says that the whole affair has given him something resembling “brain burns.” …(But he also says that the day’s not a total loss inasmuch as they had managed to lose that simply horrid shirt his aunt had recently given him.)
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If sentiment is the poetry of the workers, and profit that of management, who do fresh ideas woo?
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And another man asks: “Why does life seem so compatible to being referred to in terms of a battle, or struggle?” Sir, next time you sit down to dine ask an asparagus about this.
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…(and The Two Worlds continue to spin, spread and expand): His letter concluded with these words: “My ills are now so far advanced that my bones audibly grind whenever I am rolled over; my weight is dropping daily, and I can no longer make out any images, and can scarce distinguish night from day. I know not how many more days I can survive, and must in all honesty tell you that I presently see death as a blessed relief from this tormented condition. (P.S.: Have you heard James Brown’s new album?)”
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The mysterious skywriting plane soaring out over the woods left this message in this morning’s clouds: “When In Doubt — Follow The Fresh.”
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Along with every new anvil purchased this week, the village smithy is handing out little cards with this free message: “A king with a fever blister inside his lip can make you wish you’d been more attentive in religious services when you were a child.”
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For the annual, family celebration they observed, the old man told the brood that they had their choice: They could either be tired of what they’d been thinking for the last year, or else the color of their house.
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The title of the play the author submitted for consideration was, “No One Has As Much Fun As The Dead ‘Cause They Can Laugh At EVERYBODY!” …(The producers said they thought the name was a bit long.)
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…then Kyroot offered this reminder for tax time: The primary pays for every thing.
…..Only the secondary must explain and defend itself.
…..Were those last two connected?
…..Do sailors get horny?!!
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As we were walking through the park a man suddenly leaped upon a bench and declared, “A revolutionist who is not also a pretty ordinary guy is not your ordinary revolutionist…….
whatever the hell THAT means!” …(Hey folks! — I just quote ’em.)
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And a guy writes the Advice Doctor: “Before I started reading your column I thought I needed a psychiatrist. Now I think YOU need one.”
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The songs the band played in that last medley were, “Laws Were Made To Be Broken.”; and “Laws Were Made To Be Obeyed.”; and “Laws Were Made So That Some More Could Be Made Tomorrow.”
…(Don’t go way — they’ll be right back after a short break.)
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And this inquiry from a correspondent: “Why do men call the intellect by so many different names, like: soul, spirit, psyche, etc.?” Have you not noticed that every country calls uncharted, unconquered lands by different names, locally pleasing to them?!
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At the conclusion of the speaker’s remarks, as the audience was leaving one man scoffed out, “It’s easy to sound impressive if you — Hah! — know what you’re talking about.”
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…and Kyroot noted some more — Invisible Proof….(Oh, okay, Evidence…..Oh, okay, Proof): Priests’ children becoming religious rebels shows their genetic line is on to something and trying.
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Just to be on the safe side, one guy carried his own personal woodpecker in his pocket.
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A viewer suggests we revise a recent Kyroot so as to read: “The common denominator between history and science fiction is that they are both bright ships, dead in the water.” (He says he’s gained much in his appreciation of the intellectual “present,” and the REAL future, as opposed to what our collective and common past tells us occurred, and how it will inevitably determine our local future. [He says he more and more sees ordinary men’s mental dependence on one another as perhaps the sole possibility of some sort of “secret conspiracy” — other than the fact that it’s right out here in the open — and you can see no one behind it other than us ourselves. He says he finds it all most intriguing and encouraging.])
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Man’s civilized world was fully up and running once he’d developed the word “imperfect.”
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One parent told their child, “Your inauthentic self IS your authentic self.”
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Then just before he died, (ah, he wasn’t really dying, but quite often he’d pretend to be just so’s he could do this), then just before he died this one man cried aloud, “What if it’s all been a joke that I took seriously? — or, it’s all been serious and I just TOOK it as a joke?!!” …(No offensive intended, but perhaps it’s time he DID die.)
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A man in your neighborhood says he’d like to entertain the ideas of the revolution in greater detail, but that his attention is holding him captive.
…..One guy used to live right down the street from himself.
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…and Kyroot, (acting as your Ole Dutch Uncle), noted: Trying to get others to see the “error of their ways” is like standing amidst the wreckage of the plane you just crashed, and getting them to laugh at the slowness of buses.
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The reality of what men call guilt has two possible sites of residence: Either in the mind, or in the muscles. …(And P.S.-O: One of them is actually trying to tell you something useful!)
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Monotony, local — variety, universal.
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And Kyroot left you this — combination secondary pharmaceutical, engineering, theatrical, & sub-atomic-cosmological hint: In a valid, healthy game of “Pretend,” two players are required: The pretender, and the audience. …(Okay, hint-upon-a-hint: Why do you suppose everyone has a “secret playmate”? Two lips, two ears, and two sides to their brain? Why do you suppose?! — [hint, hint].)
…..speaking of things metaphysical and out of the old ordinary, one man says he mentally visited a place where everything came in threes. (He says the pizza place later admitted that one of the delivery boys had sprinkled some extremely strange mushrooms on several orders — and apologized.)
…..then — suddenly without any decent warning — Kyroot updated one of his own Kyroots: A man who writes his own proverbs is never overweight. …(The keyboard giveth — and the keyboard taketh away.)
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Conversation between two brothers (who used to be father and son): “Those who can’t listen to themselves are always on the lookout for someone else to listen to.”, and the other one replied, “How true — how sad but true; but at least it shows that ordinary people are smart enough not to listen to a COMPLETE idiot.”
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If you see life as a battle between the “good guys and the bad guys,” you’ll see the bad guys winning.
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A chap at the city swimming pool says while thumbing through the telephone book he came upon a listing for the Stupid Doctor, but was unable to tell whether the practitioner was a physician who was stupid, or one who treated those who were. So he says he called the office for clarification, but the secretary refused comment, and referred him to their Modifier Explainer. (The man relaying this story then leaned over closer and said, Now do you see what I’ve been trying to tell you?!”)
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There is this one man who says he thinks of his own attempts at fresh thinking as, “A ship — purposefully with no anchor.”
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In a most secret conversation the king instructed his clandestine Minister Of Progress to locate everyone in the kingdom who was “satisfied,” and threaten to shoot them…and see if that did ’em any good!
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As they walked, they talked, “Big men have big egos.” “Is that because they realize they ARE big men?” “No, it’s because they have big egos.”
…..A viewer writes: “Next Tuesday is my birthday; could you do a whole show of nothing but Kyroots that have no follow-up comment, (like this letter probably represents)?”
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When everyone takes their crayon and colors in the same page, that’s known as “local reality.”
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And yet another testimonial into the Advice Doctor: “Dear Doctor: My wife and I have both noticed how much our sex life has improved since I began following your column and she’s taken up with the milk man.”
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And now our, “Quote Of The Day From The City,” (guy says): “Anybody that’d take anything somebody else said seriously is an idiot — PERIOD!”
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The semi-hip curator of one city museum told his young visiting nephew, “In the world of art and literature men are provided with shoulders just so they’ll have something to look back over.” …(The kid [being more a jock than anything else] wondered why more artists didn’t cut off their heads instead of their ears.)
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One man climbed the highest mountain, and swam the deepest sea, only to get frostbite and the bends.
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One rebellious sort, after some careful surveying of the local scene, concluded for himself: “Well, if I DO have to partially live here, I think what would be in order would be a leaner form of civilization for moi.” …(Ofttimes the best ideas are the ones you never hear about — and so maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned this one.)
…..”But hold up!,” writes a viewer, “then that could mean that the best thing you might could tell somebody would be what you never tell them.”
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On a particularly trying, and rewarding, and unusual day, this one guy’s guardian angel — (well!, that’s what he said he was) — told him, “Look Charlie, Life don’t give out no degrees just for living, but look at it like this: It also don’t make you do any homework after you grow up.”
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When the ordinary are confronted with impartiality they’re tempted to call it cynicism; and when the ordinary are cynical they’re tempted to call it impartiality.
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The Whisper Man ships out this message to today’s sophisticated man-&-woman-citizen: “The game of life is played on a muddy field, between two unequal teams, under unfair rules, with biased officials using a malfunctioning scoreboard. But other than THAT — Hey!, how are things?”
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And the more he thought about it the more he concluded, “Being stoned or drunk is about like being ordinary.” …(He wasn’t all that impressed by this since he knew it already.)
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One guy said to his sweetheart, “It’s hard to be two people trying to be one.” And his brain said, “Oh, I’m sorry, were you talking to me?”
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…then Kyroot offered: Another Alternative Telling Of The History Of Human Life: Some appeared to take it worse than others — but none actually took it as badly as they appeared to.
…(There are things that distinguish man from the other local animals besides his thumb, fax machines, and frequent flyer mileage, and one of them is his ability to pretend to suffer over stuff he only pretends to suffer over. …[You see: At the primary level — Dead is dead, but on the secondary — Everything IS forever.])
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From our viewing audience comes this letter: “Dear Kyroot: My wife and I have been watching your shows, and she says this ‘neural revolution thing’ is just a bunch of foolishness, but I say that no human mind could have made up such a thing. Who (if anyone) is correct?”
…..SURPRISE! — Pop Quiz Time: What kind of healthy, prosperous mind would willingly sabotage its own merry go round?
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…and Kyroot noted: Those who have no idea what they’re doing or what it’s all about are quite often the ones calling for long-range, widespread collective investigations. …(The little lad chuckled and gurgled at this notion, and squeezing his father’s hand securely asked him, “By what name does such activity go, Pa Pa?”, and the elder smiled and replied, “In some places it’s known as curious, in others as cream cheese with chives, and still other areas simply refer to it as industrial evolution on the hoof.”)
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The rich sing the praises of the poor, the powerful of the weak, so why no “Odes To Ignorance”?……….could it be there is not yet a real intelligentsia to do so?!
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(Life goes somewhere whether you think so or not!): The driver told the passengers: “Don’t mess with me when my mind is on a ramble.”
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In city park, over by the Acorn Museum, a man set down his own soapbox, climbed thereon, and delivered: “The collective has no freedom of will.” And the crowd that had stopped to listen began to take a vote among themselves whether to hang him or rip out his nose hairs.
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One ole city sorehead gave his young’un this heady advice: “One way to distract from the fact of having a poorly mind is to develop a back problem.”
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One guy (who used to take long drives by himself) finally thought, “If you’re going to live in the ordinary, secondary world it would seem to me that the most efficient way would be to do it without apology, without any explanations, and without any guilt about it — just go on and ‘do it’ and forget about it.”
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Primary fights lead to resolution or death — secondary ones to health and more fights.
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…then Kyroot offered up another, “Example Of How Life Actually Works.” — “And How Nobody Realizes It.” — “And How Even If They’re Told About It, Still Don’t Care For It.”: Some of the people had planned to have the king executed at four-thirty on Friday, but inasmuch as they didn’t clear this with His Grace beforehand their plans went awry.
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A man writes to our program: “My son watches your show, and says he doesn’t believe there actually IS a Kyroot. He says he thinks you made him up so that you’d have someone imaginary to refer to instead of yourself. I’m not sure I totally understand this, but it s-u-r-e does sound interesting, if not downright pregnant with promise-ola. I surely do like the whole concept…
…and so does my son……and so does my brain. Sincerely, A-Man-Who-Surely-Do’s.”
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From a somewhat “unusual” perspective, one guy concluded, “Life is actually too brief to see much of consequence occur.”
…(His brother-in-law, who serves as his agent, says that if this makes you “feel any better” you owe them ten dollars.)
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And in response to the unexpected honor the man exclaimed, “I hardly know what to say.”, and the committee replied, “We know — that’s why you were selected.”
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Someone asks: “Could you say that this neural-revolution-thing is kind of like ‘intellectual sex’?” Sure.
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As he swept off his front walkway, a man who’d been exposed to some radiation and fallout from certain revolutionist type activity said, “I feel much better now that I can forget my ancestors.”
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Everything represents something else……….except those things that are themselves……..and they don’t get much noticed.
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One guy was his own co-defendant.
…..and a viewer writes: “Would you please tell me the name of the man in that last Kyroot — I’m afraid it might be me.”
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Thinking has its own temperature, but ordinary minds can’t see where to stick the thermometer.
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The trite, local — the surprising, universal.
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And now for our — “Question Of The Day”: One man’s MIND resembled a Kyroot.
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Parts of a correspondence between a certain rebel and a man who believed he was interested in such matters: “Is there some single secret to this revolution thing?” “No.” “Are you sure?” “No.” “Are you telling me the complete truth?” “No.”