Translating Literal, City Thought Metaphorically in Real Time
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02/01/1995
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Summary
#1394 2/1/95
Notes by TK
Literal thought can’t be stopped, but a constant metaphorical “translation” makes extraordinary change and impact. Intellectual evolution is toward symbolic thought-creativity.
The News
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Thinking: literally, metaphorically & symbolically:
Any move past the literal is progress,
And any understanding of the metaphorical, even more so.
I would say something about the symbolic — but if I did — it would also, and would likely be exactly what I’d just said — but if it did —
It would also probably be more or less what I’d just said, if not exactly -but if I did.
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One man didn’t know anyone famous or powerful ….Except himself…
….Who he said was close enough.
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Fame is power in that weak wolves can hear hormones howl.
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Vanity has historically gotten a bad rap from two sources:
First: from those who don’t know how to do it,
And secondly, from a few wolves who periodically pick up the vague scent of some far-away freedom,
Beyond the confines and,
Self-congratulatory comfort of
The pack.
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The inevitable came knockin’ on one man’s door and he said: “Who’s there?” and when there was no answer, he knew what was up.
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Dr. Blunt had a sign on his office wall that read:
“Pain is just pain’s way of saying: ‘hi, my name is pain.'”
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Exacto fact-o’s:
* the simple enjoy seeing the handicapped attempt to cope.
* the more-conscious seldom appear in the demographics of routine entertainment audiences.
“Cut me daddy. Nine to the bar.”
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(continued): how things work in spite of how things appear to work,(& vice versa):
(okay, try this one): until Moses died — and I mean real-l-ly died, Muhammad couldn’t say anything.
Take this allegorical series regarding how one certain mystic
Couldn’t say anything until another previous one had died….(real-l-y died), and figure out how you could use it in the effort to break from your-present mental position and think new things.
The swearing of allegiance, harbors a misfeasance
In how — on the predictable, honor, it bestows.
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Histo-lexical footnote:
The civilian notion of the “Sacrilegious” was an unwitting misinterpretation of a more conscious man’s sense of the sacred.
…And thus it goes.
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Query: why talk about man’s mind when it’s so loath to talk about itself!?
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A man asked a mystic:
“Does not the attempt to awaken consciousness amidst everyday life require that one walk an extremely thin line between the natural attraction to things mundane, and the
Supernatural hunger for things extraordinaire !?”
And the alleged one replied:
“Not only that! —
But pursuing such a life demands that you continually walk a very thin line between eveything and — everything else.”
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Helpful tip if you’re going to the city:
If you squinch up your eyes real good you can see less,
(did I say “Eyes”!?)
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Another great thing about being a critic,
(besides not having to know what you’re talking about),
Is that you can apparently work up a head of passionate attack steam
Easier than those involved with what you’re criticizing can – or — will stage a defense.
(anyone desirous of further clarification on this point
Could consider the relative, working relationship between life and man.)
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The collective’s overview of its own health & well-being:
A herd always looks at
Individual originality as being of potentially
Epidemically dangerous dimensions.
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And yet another — yes, another distinguishing mark of everyday man
The simple do not mind, “Explaining themselves’ — mind!? —
Hell, they wallow in it.
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And now prom our: uncivil hair salon: a proverb extension & update:
Ignorance has a million mothers- enlightenment, only one.
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Myths:
According to how “Well” you are —
Myths are either: sugar coated forms of reality — or, intense, condensed ones.
…Not unlike how metaphors either:” mean something other than what they say,” or pin-point exactly what they intended to.
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The better you get at dickering around with the electronics of the thing, the cleaner becomes your ability to tune into the fact that there is but one station transmitting! —
All else is a matter of the illusionary number of various distinct receivers.
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Of all the tools, one of the great ones is — unpredictability,
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Today’s: “Wrap-up” wrap-up:
It’s not so much that ordinary men couldn’t understand what’s going on— if it was explained to them,
But rather, that they simply don’t want it explained!
“Hey, Lozlow — is that really, ‘a wrap’!?”
“Well, if it ain’t — I don’t wanna be here when one shows up!”
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While under the influence of drugs, (or something), one day local conditions
Looked at mortal entertainment and said:
“You call that — entertainment!?”
Of course, of course! —
To be fair about it: what the simple normally find to be entertaining (and thus, potentially, informative),
Is all they want to so find.
Hey!, no matter the temporary, disreputable state of local conditions, or the immediate vicinity – hell, for that matter – even you —
Life still knows how to look out after itself, okay…All right…okay.
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It does no good to tell a child, “Not to play in traffic” — traffic plays in him.
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Rush hour definition:
The enlightened: those with no vehicle preference.
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Whenever he’d “Pass himself in the dark,” one man would blow his horn and,
Flash his lights,
The more he did it — the gladder he was that Buddha was dead… good & dead!
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Local conditions told one man:
“If you re-new your subscription now,
It’ll be like getting 34 issues free!”
And the guy thought: “Hell — I don’t want 34 more issues!”
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Originality is to a herd — as a third leg is to a bicycle racer.
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…If we had the time,
We would perhaps, herein,
Pause for a few moments to reflect on how,
In the hippodrome of man’s mental competitions,
So often what at first seems a boon — proves to be a bust.
…But, alas! ….The old temporal restraints, (don’t you know).
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News from the transcendental world of finance & employment:
The “Knowledgeable man” will quickly, “Price himself out of the market.”
As he passed the boundary marker of infinity,
He thought to himself: “And not a moment too soon.”
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And now– a carpet update:
Yes, a silly man can be a happy man — as long as: he is sillier than everyone else! — and, never takes it seriously! — and,
Never lets on.
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The king asked the royal mystical-type person:
“Why speak in metaphors
When you can speak plainly!?”
And the would-be, insightful one
Was suddenly – (new to his personal condition) —
Actually struck with some insight, and
Mused to himself an extension of the question, (to wit):
“Why speak in metaphors when you don’t have to speak at all!?”
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Our joke for the day” goes like this:
Some people over in the city asked for a clearer definition of a certain term, and so I obliged:
The sub-conscious: another word for – stupid.
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No sooner had the latest ratings been released than many-a-man muttered to himself: “I used to be a, ‘hit show.'”
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All knowledge,
Of all awakened men,
has the middle name of—specious.
….(attempting to ride the coat tails,
Some amongst the routine intellectuals
Have adopted the nickname of: potentially spurious,
Which of course is – not the same,
Is meaningless, and,
Let’s them off the ole mental hook — in advance.)
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Query: don’t let city clock watchers tell you that: “Time is of the essence,” nay — not of the essence, but rather that:
Neural awareness based on temporal footings will
Suck the very essential potential from consciousness.
“I say, Maximill, does this account for the scarcity of myths & allegories about time!?”
And to himself, a man plundered: “Just what are the odds of all this occurring simultaneously!?”
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The sole protection needed for any mental assault is — originality of thought
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Suddenly! — (moved by an urge, or something), the man stood and proclaimed: “Humiliation without representation is….Is…Well is….”,
And quickly saved himself by noting: “Not to worry — I’m here.”
Moral: metaphors are forever
While the literal — comes & goes.
“I do say, Orlando, that doesn’t seem like much of a moral to me.”
And just then,
A whirlwind, which,
Just beyond horizon had
Reaped the angry rhetoric of man,
Fell upon all the words — and all who spoke them,
Only to leave,
As it had arrived,
Which is to say: metaphors are forever
While the literal — comes & goes.
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One man’s mind told him: “Don’t patronize me!”, and he thought: “I don’t see how that’s possible.”
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Query: why make fun of language when it doesn’t make fun of you!?
— hey, what are you, some kinda comedian or somethin’!?
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The simple want to argue about everything.
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In the real world of art — only critics whine, never creators.
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The dumb want to deny everything.
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One fellow had to go lay down after pondering along the road of considering: “If humor is, ‘a simple man’s attempt at metaphor’,
Then why are religions always so serious?”
He nearly asked for a cold compress,
Until also tossing around the potentials behind the words, “Cold”, & “Compress” …(even the outer regions of cortical-mortical decided that it was better to: “Leave well enough alone” -if,
“Well-enough” is all that you’ve got.)
…Oh, one last thing:
He did later wonder if he’d momentarily confused the words, “Compress,” and, “Compass.”
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As the city limits sign for eternity flashed past his window, the man said to himself: and n’er too quickly for me, ole chum.”
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Now from our secret rifle range: a short shooter’s “on the-mark ” explication:
All originality is a form of progress.
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From our: “You knew that” files – (or at least: “You should’ve known it”)–
If you’re going to address a whole herd
You’ve got to speak even dumber than you would when speaking to an individual cow,
Question time: then why have there never been famous mystical teachers appearing in barn yards”
Or:
Why is that where all of them have shown up!?
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A certain fox, who showed signs of nascent wings, began to wonder if the notion of public renown
Did not actually conceal more than it revealed (!?!)
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How to live and die and not leave a trace:
Don’t die! —
It’s not original! —
Take a tip from metaphors! Dammit.
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The strange case of the young man who
One morning, upon attempting to put on his shoes, discovered that his left foot had become his right, and his right foot, his left,
What a thoroughly puzzl1ng-case, wouldn’t you-say1?