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---
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.)