You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
5 comments:
I am trying to interpret how this informs the current context. Can a person be subjugated by silence? I usually have something to say, which can at times be conciliatory for a sharp approach, but plants are poor displacements of human emotions. The store all the nourishment they need, and are enlarged by this fact.
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Are you indicating that I should lift the ban on comments, so that you are not a subject? That is the nature of the sphinx, of bearing intimately into the universal. If you fear that I have structured expectations or that I implicated you in a round of thinking you do not share, then block or ignore me , and I will move on.
I am a passionate person, but nothing makes me colder than being taken as flattering.
I was supposed to be working my overtime day, today. I tend to view myself as a machine; and overschedule myself or add extra complexity to a situation, without taking into account my need for rest and emotional decompression. I lost my check card, or it was separated from me, Sunday night when I worked a sixteen-hour shift. Last week, I misplaced my watch, which I found. When I lose things, I am reminded to pause, and rest. Focus on what is important.
https://www.gottman.com/blog/build-love-maps/
I will put Exercise 91 here.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Torah_and_Commentary/vCfrt1cP_mkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jacob%20Maariv%20Haran&pg=PA96&printsec=frontcover
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