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2title: Proverbs
3id: proverbs
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: Book of Hezekiah
8 class: hezekiah
9 order: 4
10 next:
11 - title: Moving sideways
12 link: movingsideways
13 prev:
14 - title: Philosophy
15 link: philosophy
16...
17
18[Nothing matters; everything is sacred.
19Everything matters; nothing is sacred][sacred].[^1]
20This is the only way we can move forward: by moving sideways.
21Life is a great big rugby game, and the entire field has to be run for a goal.
22The fact that the beginning two verses of this chapter have the same number of characters proves that they are a tautological pair, that is, they *complete each other*.
23Sometimes life seems like a dog wagging its tail, smiling up at you and wanting you to love it, just wanting that, simple simple love, oblivious to the fact that it just ran through your immaculately groomed flower garden and tracked all the mud in onto your freshly steamed carpet.
24Life is not life in a suburb.
25[There are no rosebushes, groomed never. There is no carpet, steamed at any time.][rosebush]
26The dog looks at you wanting you to love it.
27It wants to know that you know that it's there.
28*It wants to be observed*.[^2]
29
30[sacred]: words-meaning.html
31[rosebush]: lovesong.html
32
33[^1]: Thank you [Tom Stoppard][]. Ha ha ho ho and hee hee.
34
35[^2]: Ah ha! I knew this was going to happen at some point. Now things
36 are going to get more interesting because the dog wants what we
37 thought was a bad thing, right? Right? Didn't we go through that
38 part about how observing made it impossible to really know anything,
39 and I had to start over because it's really hard to figure out what
40 you're talking about when reality slips out of your hands like a
41 fish, but you're not a cat with claws so it just flops right outta
42 your hand back into the lake. (By the way, Nirvana is thought to be
43 what a drop of water feels upon flopping into a lake---doesn't that
44 seem important? Doesn't it seem like a fish and a drop of water here
45 are connected? It helps, of course, that the fish represents Reality
46 here.)
47
48[Tom Stoppard]: http://www.thesatirist.com/books/CowGirlBlues.html