From the Journals
of a Clever Bugger
Who Knows Every Damn Thing

by Jim


On Randomness:

Does God play dice with the Universe? I like to believe that He does, but I've enough experience with dice to know that all dice, even divine ones, are never fully random.

 

On Identity:

Any major change in life requires first a change in identity.

 

On Hero Worship:

People nowadays only lift the hero onto their shoulders in order to convey him to the nearest cliff and hurl him therefrom.

 

On Romance:

I do not like to think so, but we have many base impulses that we tend to dress up in more romantic apparel.

 

On the English Language:

I never metaphor I didn't like.

Our language, like our currency is being devalued every day.

 

On Art vs. Literature:

A picture is worth a thousand words (or about 4 typed, double-spaced pages).

 

On Life After the Eighties:

I guess the "Fall of Communism" and "Disarmament" seemed kind of anticlimactic and now our eyes turn inward and we think "Ya know, a good nuclear war would've done us a lot of good." I think we miss the potentiality of a life in a nuclear wasteland.

 

On Paranoia:

Total paranoia is total awareness.

 

On Commerce:

It seems to be a world of retail beauty and wholesale ugliness.

 

On Writing:

I think my problem may be that my target audience doesn't read.

 

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