Posted on 07/02/2004 3:34:31 AM PDT by MadIvan
"Because of the incredibly clarity that comes with it," Lion says. "It may feel that for the first time in your life, you really have a clear idea of what kinds of thoughts are going through your head.
Many liberals experience this moment when they grasp the truth of conservatism.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
He either thinks more slowly than I do or writes more quickly. I cannot write at the speed of thought.
Kooky, but hardly cracked. This is a form of self-examination, of monitoring one's thoughts closely -- it is that introspective foce that pulls us all away from being purebred animal. It is NOT a particular good way of doing that -- two reasons -- one the load on time noted in the article, and two because one should frame one's introspections along frameworks established by honorable people before you. Otherwise -- well, for example, the Marquis de Sade is a example of the otherwise. He also meandered and sank in the muds of self-introspection.
Every now and then the guards would find his written materials and destroy them.
That was the first idea that popped into my head upon seeing this... I can't even speak fast enough to get even close.
I thought this was going to be a story about Bob "Doodles" Graham.
"Amateur."
Conveniently carried about in a borrowed grocery cart along with all one's other possessions.
If you write down everything you think, doesn't it go like this?:
"I'm thinking that I'm writing that I'm thinking that I'm writing that I'm thinking that I'm writing that I'm thinking that I'm writing that I'm thinking that I'm writing that I'm thinking that I'm writing that I'm thinking that I'm writing that I'm thinking that I'm writing that I'm thinking that I'm writing ..."
How would anything else get into the loop?
LOL -- my thoughts exactly, but that idiot wrote down every thing he did (not every thing he thought) didn't he?
I am writing that I am thinking and writing and eggs for breakfast no Cheerios less fat then I can have a drink at dinner and what about the drycleaning and I hope it rains and I am thinking ans writing is this working are my thoughts clearer...
Nope. Doesn't work for me and I don't think it worked for Bob Graham either.
I immediately thought of this passage between Worsel and Kinnison from E.E. Doc Smith's "The Gray Lensman":
"Sort of a thin time for you old man I'm afraid". Kinnison leaned unconcernedly against the towering pillar of his friend's tail, whereupon four or five grotesquely stalked eyes curled out at him speculatively. -snip- "Nothing like that". The Velantian flashed out a leather wing and flipped his tail aside in a playfully unsuccessful attempt to catch the Earthman off balance. "Some day, if you ever really learn to think, you will discover that a few weeks' solitary, undisturbed, and concentrated thought is a rare treat. To have such an opportunity in the line of duty makes it a pleasure unalloyed".
"I always did think you were slightly screwy at times and now I know it," Kinnison retorted, unconvinced. "Thought is-or should be-a means to an end, not an end in itself; but if that's your idea of a wonderful time I'm glad to be able to give it to you."
Kinda figured you would have thought of this passage as well. :-)
Thanks for the post. We are getting there.
It sounds like Kimbro was "a modest man, with much to be modest about".
LOL, Bob Graham did immediately come to mind.
THE HORROR, THE HORROR!
I was thinking how he managed going to the bathroom (if he literally became immobilized). And what about sleeping. Did he record his dreams too?
Well, if it's true that men are supposed to think about sex every few minutes, I think this guy just published a porn novel! *L*
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