The Ultimate Trip
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All knowledge becomes increasingly cool and remote as it moves through the time of Man’s memory. Memory says that this should not be so, but it does not perceive itself amidst the heat exchange as well.
As a teaching experiment, I once tried to convince an interested fellow that he “didn’t really exist.” We met on a regular basis as I implanted intricate new threads in his mental cloth. And although he initially rebelled at such an irrational notion, I slowly made headway with my undertaking. I was, in fact, very near to winning him over when he just suddenly quit showing up and I never saw him again.
The continual attempt to ignite, then reignite, the 4th Circuit is THE cure for boredom. It is the essential ride, the ultimate trip.
Life has caused Man to proclaim, “You can’t understand another until you have walked a mile in his shoes,” and this can be understood as a verbal urging to move from a D-step into a C-one. But to move onto that 4-dimensional path one must be able to walk a thousand miles in everyone’s shoes without leaving home. (Dr. Scholls can’t help you.)
It is said, scientifically speaking, that a “fact” is something that is repeatable; I ask you then, are Men verifiable facts? (Worse-Y-And-No-Matter-What: The voices of their awareness are undeniably so.)
J.