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2title: Proverbs
3genre: prose
4
5id: proverbs
6toc: "Proverbs"
7
8project:
9 title: Book of Hezekiah
10 class: hezekiah
11 order: 4
12 next:
13 - title: Moving sideways
14 link: movingsideways
15 prev:
16 - title: Philosophy
17 link: philosophy
18...
19
20[Nothing matters; everything is sacred.
21Everything matters; nothing is sacred][sacred].[^1]
22This is the only way we can move forward: by moving sideways.
23Life is a great big rugby game, and the entire field has to be run for a goal.
24The 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*.
25Sometimes 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.
26Life is not life in a suburb.
27[There are no rosebushes, groomed never. There is no carpet, steamed at any time.][rosebush]
28The dog looks at you wanting you to love it.
29It wants to know that you know that it's there.
30*It wants to be observed*.[^2]
31
32[sacred]: words-meaning.html
33[rosebush]: lovesong.html
34
35[^1]: Thank you [Tom Stoppard][]. Ha ha ho ho and hee hee.
36
37[^2]: Ah ha! I knew this was going to happen at some point. Now things
38 are going to get more interesting because the dog wants what we
39 thought was a bad thing, right? Right? Didn't we go through that
40 part about how observing made it impossible to really know anything,
41 and I had to start over because it's really hard to figure out what
42 you're talking about when reality slips out of your hands like a
43 fish, but you're not a cat with claws so it just flops right outta
44 your hand back into the lake. (By the way, Nirvana is thought to be
45 what a drop of water feels upon flopping into a lake---doesn't that
46 seem important? Doesn't it seem like a fish and a drop of water here
47 are connected? It helps, of course, that the fish represents Reality
48 here.)
49
50[Tom Stoppard]: http://www.thesatirist.com/books/CowGirlBlues.html