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!
must
be
getting
better
now ? ”
gets
better
as
you
get
older ! ”
you
are
taking
nonsense
a
s
a negative
attribute
don't
it's
also
a
positive
attribute !
the
hunting
of
the
snark
lewis
carrolls
best
work
is
a
supreme
example
of
sense
cojoined
to
nonsense !
it's
not
necessarily
a
bad
thing
that
people
close
to
us
die
indeed
it
may
even
be
to
our
advantage
this
is
a
real
life
observation
much
as
we regret
the
loss
of
some-one close
or
reasonably close !
the
mass
of
people
are
stupid
cunning
but
stupid !
some
people
work
hard
for
money
i
don't
know
what
i
work
hard
for
stupidity
my
own
and
others ?
small
blue-eye
is
a
good
brain
feeding
fish
:
o
)
what
is
called
buddha
is
that
this
world
is
an
illusion
which
is
a
pretty
buddhist
sentiment
or
teaching !
what
it
all
comes
down
to
is
that
this
world
is
derived
or
not
the
real
thing
and
in
the
end
if
you
observe
coherently
enough
you
will
come
to
this
conclusion !
yes
atheist
non-
atheist
buddhist
i
have
flagged
consistency
it's
a
bit
of
a
relief
not
to
be
bound
by
what
we
say
and
it's
not
necessary !
i
am
all
for
religion
as
a force
for
social
stability
that
is
when
it
is
socially
stable
which
it
always !
flame
fronts
are
instant !
wether
it's
working
out
an
engine
oil
viscosity
or
analysing
some
literary
work
it's
pretty
much
the
same
skills
what
r
u
trying
to
do
and
what
works
best !
except
a
literary
work
is
much
more
amorphous
on
intention
but
it
can
still
be
judged
on
wether
it
achieves
some
effect !
just
keep
moving
forward
it's
the
only
way
moving
backwards
takes
care
of
itself
:
o
)
the
occasional
rest
doesn't
hurt
tho !
is
god ?
“ immanent
all
powerful
blah
blah ”
“ you
know
god
from
clichés
and
not
personal
experience ! ”
is
the
devil
my
name
is
crucifixion !
i
have
been
put
wrong
i
have
put
people
wrong
when
i
think
of
my
being
put
wrong
i
remember
my
putting
them
wrong
and
this
tempers
me !
everything
i
do
is
fraught
there's
an
illusory
stability
about
the
world
which
shows
every
time
we
are
inattentive
is
a
larger
context
we
are
living
in
life
and
death
not
just
life
as
it
happens !
no-one
has
a theory
about
life
or
dying !
separate
heads
universes
away
from
each
other
steve
irwin
lizards
are
distinctly
not
people
they
are
lizards
everything
makes
sense
until
you
get
older
when
the
newness
dissappears
infinity
is
nonsense
we
are
and
we
cease
we
just
have
no
comprehension
of
not
ceasing
we
are
all
separate
universes
there's
not
much
can
bridge
the
gap !
my
uncle
died
i'm
starting
to
concede
i
might
die !
it's
an
interesting
experience
instead
of
going
to
people
you
let
them
come
to
you
if
they
come
at
all !
you
see
what's
what
very
clearly !
beware
of
women
they
are
like
guilded
snakes
strike
where
the
the
glitter
is
brightest !
once
the
sheep
get
involved
there's
any
number
of
them !
in
extremes
the
everyday
insanities
become
clearer !
can
spend
your
entire
life
not
knowing
what
god
is
and
die
not
knowing
what
god
is
it's
that
sort
of
unknowability !
marriage
is
like
a
genetic
partnership
the
copying
and
printing
of
genes
is
it's
purpose !
he will have some theory or other about going to seed and what one should do going to seed
i guess thats what pubs are about in part
the
comfy
illusion
james
randi
slowly
crawling
into
an
idea
doesn't
quite
fit
him
truth
is
not
the
final
certainty
or
highest
truth
for
that
matter
: o )
notion
of
science
become
an
unhelpful
construct
it
has
been
so
inundated
with
the
notions
of
the
herd
that
it
has
become
an
unhelpful
conceptual
construct
like
the
contradiction
of
skepticism
they
are
not
skeptical
about
science !
the
process
of
science
is
notorious
for
wrong
views
promulgated
over
many
many
years
by
calcified
academics !
no
matter
how
much
money
you
have
it's
is
always
gobbled
up
by
looking
for
more !
as
opposed
to
slow
leakage
if
you
leave
it
alone !
the
net
has
changed
the
attention
span
a
lot
of
disparate
intense
material
in
a
short
time !
i
think
god
knows
what
god
is
better
than
we
do !
no
wonder
he/she
is
so
blind
to
human
travail !
obnoxious
pushy -
bodies !
males
what
every
woman
knows
you
are
there
for
the
taking
unless
you
are
already
taken
in
which
case
there
might
be
a
fight
or
you
are
discarded
as
not
worth
the
trouble !
atheists
are
nutcases
thick
as
bricks
the
problem
is
not
that
there
is
or
is
not
what
is
is
the
problem
of
a
lifetime !
have
got
everything
exactly
right
or
exactly
wrong
:
O
(
)
i
don't
like
to
disillusion
you
but
50
is
not
20
: o )
everything
is
imperfection
but
there
is
some
adequacy
of
a
job
done
right !
amateur
versus
professional ?
there
really
is
no
such
distinction
a
teacher ?
there
is
no
object
to
teach
looking
out
through
a
filter
of
pain
somethings
you
just
cannot
let
go
!
a
migraine
is
not
just
a
migraine
it's
an
immune
response
event !
my
brain
is
in
pain
and
pretty
lame !
sometimes
the
veil
gets
ripped
off
for
a
moment
and
we
are
appalled
by
what
we
see !
north korea is surreal
like
something
out
of
carbon
monoxide
poisoning
you
can
try
to
fight
it
but
it
just
you !
migraine
i
just
can't
do
anything
except
sit
and
die !
a
continuity
across
death
vision
a
continuity
a
cross
death
what's
the
point
of
having
money
if
you
don't
have
any !
often
i
side
with
the
wrong
people
those
not
friendly
to
me
or
in
an
oppositional
situation !
you
can
actually
canned
laughter !
just
because
it's
alcohol
doesn't
mean
it's
not
drugs !
rebel never gets
david
bowie
did
he
rebel
against
sex
no
he
never
told
people
what
they
didn't
want
to
hear
a
talented
fake !
is
the
worship
of
human
breeding !
we
do
is
empty
but
you
actually
have
to
do
something
to
see
that
i
don't
think
it's
enough
to
do
nothing
and
say
well
it's
all
empty !
of
course
you
can
do
something
and
say
it's
not
empty
which
is
the
usual
human
course
of
things !
personally i hardly eat it any more
i have to say this magazine is not exactly “cutting edge” in terms of views and opinions that are around !
is
“journalist” a euphemism for “sleep walker”
it
seems
to
be !
a
word
can
have
multiple
meanings
you
have
to
look
at
the
context
to
get
the
sense !
the
is
actually
the
worship
of
human
breeding !
i
am
not
an
atheist !
like
the
rest
of
you
i
worship
the
medical
profession
three
before
breakfast!
why
do
i
water
the
garden
just
before
it
rains ?
the
egyptian
book
of
the
the
tibetan
book
of
the
dead
any
amount
of
schizophrenia
before
and
now
hereafter !
the
amount
of
work
needing
to
be
done
can
break
one's
back
and
the
flies !
you
can
have
a
spare
computer
or
gun
but
if
you
never
use
them
it's
quite
a
bit
of
extra
work
for
nothing
not
to
mention
the
expense !
better to keep what you
have
working
well !
when
you
are
finding
all
sorts
of
odds
and
ends
that
you
haven't
thought
about
for
years
but
can't
find
what
you
are
looking
for
you
know
you
are
looking
properly !
why don't they ever do anything useful like mass murdering teachers or journalists ?
schools
are
not
above
the
law
lawlessness
is
permitted amongst the students
mass
killings
are
an
intrinsic
part
of
the
school
culture !
i
actually
think
the
novel
a
s
a
form
has
been
deprecated
by
the
internet !
the
problem
an
artist
has
is
they
get
paid
for
their
work
quality
work
is
undervalued
and
the trash
is
overvalued
so
guess
what
happens ?
andy
warhol
and
dali's
factory stuff !
what
happens
today
with
english
teaching
is
akin
to
teaching
alchemy
in
place
of
chemistry !
have
already
compared
notes
and
you
don't
stack up
: o )
the “pestering a man” homily can be read a number of ways
what
i
have
to
write
to
avoid
assassination
by
the
sisters
for
equality !
: o )
i
don't
think
“ satire ”
is
in
their
vocabulary
a
man
is
always
busy
having
things
to
do
a
woman
of
course
is
never
busy
unless
she
is
pestering
a
man !
is
this
sexist
or
factual ?
no
gender specific
poll
here !
people
are
responsive
to
quality
material
delivered
to
them
that
is
the
blinkers
they
will
not
look
the
blinkers
for
quality
material !
the
net
everybody
has
a
printing
press
in
their
own
home
you
would
think
the
publishing
industry
get
this
but
they
don't
: o )
also interesting to compare the just so the elephant's child story
kipling is a superb surrealist painter
am
i
don't
know
or
even
why
i
have
come
to
this ”
hypothetical
comment
by
sir
walter
raleigh
before
his
execution !
are
they
time
wasters ?
it's
a
simple
question
and
eliminates
a
lot
of
wasted
effort
and
unnecessary
personal
contact !
kipling
was
a
way
better
artist
than
story
teller
an
extraordinary
visual
talent !
just
so
the
stories
leave
a
bit
to
be
desired
but
the
pictures
are
of
another
dimension !
you
get
older
i
think
you
lose
a
belief
in
life
zen
in
terms
of
what
it's
about
it's
a
fraud
my reply :
it's not translated right
unbuilding
reaches
infinity !
that's
the
sense !
i
don't
really
have
to
talk
to
anybody
i've
got
it
all
written
up
but
no -
one
came
:
o
)
what's
the
difference
between
a
wannabe
author
and
an
insane
asylum
inmate
not
much
: o )
preachers
zen
masters
frauds
they
don't
have
their
own
words !
so
buddha
was
is
not
suffering
or
a
cycle
but
teachers
ruin
english !
you
know
your
watch
has
lasted
a
long
time
when
you
have
replaced
the
battery
twice !
the
past
don't
think
that
life
has
any
certainty
or
rightness
of
outcome
that
the
past
any
meaning !
politics
is
the
rule
of
the
lowest
common
denominator
locality
animal
studies
researchers
with
the
brains
of
mice !
the
problem
with
fat
people
is
they
only
take
advice
from
fat
people
if
you
are
thin
they
don't
want
to
know !
quite
two
years
seems
like
a
universe
away !
i
think
actually
that
shape
or
space
is
an
abstract
concept
that
exists
independently
of
physics
there's
no
logic
to
life
except
it
ends
by
older
women
should
dye
their
hair
it's
worth
a
facelift !
so what actually is this ?
the
seeing
itself
is
where
the
depth
is
it's
not
that
there's
any
mystery !
why
pretend ?
why
not
go
and
play
golf
who
cares ?
an
empty
meaninglessness
existance
when
you
are
young
that's
when
the
intensities
form
it's
all
sorta
flat
when
you
get
older !
sensible
person
is
silent
at
a
funeral !
life
is
such
a
bad
farce
infinity
must
have
no
taste !
maybe
this
is
where
humour
comes
from ?
money
is
neutral
it
has
no
morality
good
or
bad !
migration
stepwise
into
infinity
funerals
the
revenge
of
the
dead
on
the
living !
there
really
are
some
stupid
people
around
building
right
under
a
plane
flight
path !
coooeee
is
the
sound
but
to
call
it
something
it's
cooee !
hitler
was
a
joke
on
the
germans
they
paid
for
it
in
their
own
blood !
excluding
what
we
don't
want
to
deal
with
is
indicative
of
an
addictive
personality
marriages
shouldn't
be
too
close
or
too
far
apart !
you
can
be
wealthier
than
bill
gates
if
you
have
some
free
time !
city
life
a
frenetic
buzz
that
wears
out !
ghosts
it's
not
untrue
but
it's
not
true
either
most
dj's
sound
like
they
are
on
journalists
are
something
but
i
wouldn't
say
a
good
reason
not
to
commit
suicide
is
not
to
inflict
a
funeral
on
anyone
or
is
that
a
reason ?
if
a
woman
dislikes
the
father
she's
going
to
have
trouble
with
the
child !
in
a
city
you
can
believe
in
the
illusion
of
human
it's
a
sensible
thing
to
hate
funerals
with
a
vengance
you
just
tell
people
what
they
want
to
hear
with
a
bit
of
insight .
relatives !
they
are
strangers
but
they
are
not !
it's
an
attention
deficit
world !
it's
not
important
to
be
right
it's
important
to
see
and
correct
yourself
when
you
are
wrong .
funerals
are
fundamentally
empty
affairs !
one
of
the
advantages
of
dying
young
is
not
so
many
funerals
to
attend !
if
there's
one
thing
i
have
learnt
it's
to
hate
funerals
with
a
passion !
decoheres
death
is
like
the
crystal
chandelier
that
shatters !
your
smile
your
beauty
will
never
be
forgotten ”
except
when
forgetting
itself
is
forgot !
there
is
no
stupidity
quite
equal
to
a
human
cemetery !
the
macdonalds
of
the
end
of
life
if
you
can
go
to
a
funeral
without
getting
cremated
you
are
doing
well !
for
all
their
emotion
humans
are
remarkably
logical
about
evaluating
opportunity !
this
is
not
commercial
it's
not
escapist
it's
not
fraudulent !
you
can
do
something
in
two
ways
one
way
it
works
and
the
other
it
doesn't
unfortunately
there
is
quite
a
wide
gap
between
them !
why
does
life
have
to
be
such
hell ?
we
are
not
essentially
existant
rather
our
existance
is
derived
is
too
confusing
and
we
are
too
imperfect !
the
process
of
living
and
dying
the
cycle
of
life
is
not
in
identity
the
night
waters
told
me !
people
with
the
quid
pro
quo
to
solve
difficult
problems
are
extremely
rare
i
am
feeling
dead
shattered
unable
to
think
two
days
in
the
city !
it's
a
funny
thing
to
be
in
the
midst
of
plenty
and
starving
modern
food
presentation
style
and
lack
of
cooking !
funerals
are
a
horrible
interruption
to
life !
what
is
there ?
there
is
nothing !
mid
city
sydney
not
a
concrete
jungle
rather
a
concrete
canyon
everything
i
do
is
monumentally
does
life
get
its
meaning
from ?
any
change
or
transition
makes
me
sick
literally
hotel
rooms
little
fake
houses
things
just
went
right
you
would
never
understand
anything
in
the
end
one
is
completely
alone
completely
isolated
and
there
is
no -
one
the
dead
they
were
what
was
there
and
are
now
not
there !
suburban
housing
millions
on
millions
of
houses
the
illusion
of
personal
identity
people
have
this
advantage
they
only
pay
attention
to
their
own
interests
and
problems
with
any
effective
work
of
fiction
there
is
some
necessity
of
verisimilitude
with
reality
really
nothing
it
just
gets
more
brutal !
a
sitcom
film
soap
stage
directions
dialogue
actors
we
put
it
together
as
i
feel
i've
been
half
blind
all
my
life !
the
yellow
taxi
company
at
melbourne
airport
swarming
like
wasps !
airports
are
enough
to
make
one
want
to
be
a
even
the
number
plates
selling
something !
breeding
couples
seem
like
a
different
species !
once
it
opens
up
it's
like
a
book
you
can
always
read
planes
carrying
human
cargo !
too
much
of
inquiry
and
you
go
insane
better
blind
and
oafish
than
thinking
and
seeing
there's
no
progress
in
philosophy
heraclitus
and
schopenhaeuer
that's
basically
about
it
time
budgets
are
like
grocery
bills
all
the
items
just
keep
adding
up
it's
just
by
itself
it's
all
itself
it's
of
itself
there
“ this
work ? ”
or
is
it
craziness ?
i
am
not
particularly
concious
of
any
truth
or
being
truth
or
any
other
such
nonsense !
for
every
successful
writer
there's
a
vast
gulf
of
unwashed
the
wealth
of
infinity
always
provides
material
it's
only
the
estranged
that
bother
with
vocabularly
they
can't
see
the
wealth
that
always
just
keeps
flowing !
is
no
answer
within
thought
thought
itself
is
the
problem
thoughts
while
mowing
the
lawn
: o )
if
the
internet
had
been
around
when
bukowski
was
a
teenager
he
might
have
been
an
internet
junkie
instead
of
an
alcoholic !
a
generation
too
soon
bad
luck
on
his
part !
actually
the
cultural
destruction
of
ww1
was
devastating
where
am
i
going
where
have
i
come
form
where
am
i
going ?
the
ineffable
sadness
of
my
brain
my
life
is
dreary
i
am
weary
my
eyes
are
bleary
o
)
writing
or
homilies
are
just
a
sort
of
ordering
of
ones
thoughts
+
a
dash
of
insight !
people
a
s
a
rule
do
not
think
clearly
at
all !
if
your
life
is
not
interesting
to
yourself
it's
not
going
to
be
interesting
to
others ?
politicians
can't
be
better
than
the
voters
: o )
if
you
waste
your
time
with
hokum
you
are
just
going
to
get
hokum
aren't
you !
wet
feet
from
walking
barefoot
in
the
drizzle
how
unusual !
the
poorer
people
think
you
are
the
safer
life
gets
for
starters
you
see
life
more
realistically
from
the
way
people
treat
you !
and
it's
not
all
bad !
for
commercial
success
you
have
to
tell
people
what
they
want
to
hear !
if
you
tell
them
what
they
don't
want
to
hear
they
don't
want
to
know !
since
heraclitus
the
human
brain
hasn't
improved
any
in
two
and
a
half
thousand
years
that's
for
sure !
of
course
life
looks
sunnier
the
further
you
look
back
death
never
really
makes
sense
to
humans
you
have
to
look
at
the
whole
life
as
the
rationale !
are
really
after
the
event
the
life
has
been
lived
what
more
is
there
to
say ?
feel
good
for
the
feel
dead
lol.
if
you
want
to
understand
something
you
have
to
go
back
to
it's
origins
philosophy
heraclitus
for
instance
almost
everything
following
was
a
step
backwards !
if you read a newspaper from the 1930's it's obvious how much the reading age has dropped
now i think about it the stehaufmännchen is pure fiction and not illustrative of reality or maybe it is but what it is saying is not palalable.
that is, only stupid toys get in that situation !
if
you
are
writing
for
yourself
you
may
as
well
write
what
develops
you
intellectually
i
don't
think
prose
does
that
but
writing
poetry
and
homilies
does !
if
you
don't
want
to
be
spooked
at
night
don't
watch
horror
movies !
ever !
women
are
all
hooks
to
snag
men
those
soft
fleshed
creatures !
world
is
mad
because
of
the
fractionated
state
of
attention
that
breeding
requires
it's
wired
in
at
the
brain
level
which
is
why
monasteries
and
convents
don't
avoid
the
problem !
some
of
histories
best
generals
have
been
gay
not
so
gung
ho
a
degree
of
female
caution !
montgomery
alexander
the
great !
the
block
just
to
a
brain
morning !
male
servant
of
females !
not
if
the
cost
to
me
is
too
high !
sometimes
i
wonder
if
it's
better
to
do
nothing
because
doing
anything
is
filled
with
egregious
discovery
will
my
computer
outlive
me ?
not
at
this
stage !
wether
or
not
you
can
see
the
context
it
is
always
sitting
there
you
are
always
better
to
blur
them
what
you
are
doing
is
trying
to
understand
what
is
happening
there
is
a
lot
more
going
on
than
it
looks
like !
religious
texts
are
an
ancient
form
of
storytelling !
men
and
women
concerned
with
the
uniqueness
of
their
own
progeny
within
a
few
generations
it's
all
dispersed
into
meaninglessness !
history
of
war
is
a
history
of
technology !
any
artistic
or
cultural
intelligence
a
society
has
comes
from
blurring
i suppose the catholic church was always pretty gay
james
joyce
is
overrated
and
actually
hero
a better book
than
the
academic
establishment
favours
is
blotto !
being
fools
they
take
obscurity
as
quality
because
they
don't
understand
anything
george
bush
junior
was
schizophrenic
and
intellectually
retarded
he
would
have
never
been
voted
in
if
not
for
his
father
who
really
was
quite
compedent
it's
not
generally
appreciated
george
bush
senior
advised
his
son
against
the
iraq
war !
a
generational
decline
in
american
voting
choice !
the
iraq
war
was
a
disaster
karl
rove
should
have
been
hung
drawn
and
quartered
since
it
was
his
baby !
a
hard
hitting
arsehole
his
excrement is
smeared
through
every
vet
hospital
in
the
U.S.A.
the
purpose
of
war
is
losing
your
arms
and
legs
which
is
what
iraq
seems
to
be !
there
is
always
a
cultural
ennui
of
christianity
compared
to
islam
because
of
the
failure
of
the
crusades !
in
the
same
way
ww1
and
ww2
failed
and
europeans
got
disenchanted
with
large
scale
war !
no
loot !
what
is
god ?
even
if
god
is
a
white
bearded
old
man
or
islamic
pimp
of
virgins
for
matryrs
it
exists
in
the
imagination !
if
you
think
i'm
being
disrespectful
what
respect
can
be
owed
such
disneyesque
imaginary
views ?
with
computers
reliability
is
so
important
that
it
does
not
pay
to
buy
the
newest
of
the
new
but
wait
at
least
six
months
to
get
the
bugs
out !
it
can
take
quite
a bit
longer !
napoleon
will
one
day
be
forgotten !
but
heraclitus
will
live
forever !
the
dead
may
come
to
say
goodbye !