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