From e0b1c2737397839ff5ba8c129d31baf6f97805fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:10:17 -0700 Subject: Finish linking Elegy, Hezekiah; Rename files --- proverbs.txt | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) create mode 100644 proverbs.txt (limited to 'proverbs.txt') diff --git a/proverbs.txt b/proverbs.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d0ae38f --- /dev/null +++ b/proverbs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: Proverbs +genre: prose + +project: + title: Book of Hezekiah + css: hezekiah + order: 4 + next: + title: Moving sideways + link: movingsideways + prev: + title: Philosophy + link: philosophy +... + +[Nothing matters; everything is sacred. Everything matters; nothing is +sacred][sacred].[^1] This is the only way we can move forward: by moving +sideways. Life is a great big rugby game, and the entire field has to be run +for a goal. The 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*. Sometimes 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. +Life is not life in a suburb. [There are no rosebushes, groomed never. There +is no carpet, steamed at any time.][rosebush] The dog looks at you wanting you +to love it. It wants to know that you know that it's there. *It wants to be +observed*.[\^2] + +[sacred]: words-meaning.html +[rosebush]: lovesong.html + +[^1]: Thank you Tom Stoppard. Ha ha ho ho and hee hee. + +[^2]: Ah ha! I knew this was going to happen at some point. Now things + are going to get more interesting because the dog wants what we + thought was a bad thing, right? Right? Didn't we go through that + part about how observing made it impossible to really know anything, + and I had to start over because it's really hard to figure out what + you're talking about when reality slips out of your hands like a + fish, but you're not a cat with claws so it just flops right outta + your hand back into the lake. (By the way, Nirvana is thought to be + what a drop of water feels upon flopping into a lake---doesn't that + seem important? Doesn't it seem like a fish and a drop of water here + are connected? It helps, of course, that the fish represents Reality + here.) -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81