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Thanks TAE commentators! I have been trying to catch up on yesterday’s 161 and today’s 121 comments!
BOSCO: Loved every word of your on going Santa story! Now I just wish I could steal it and go back in time to give it to my high school English Literature teacher! It would surely light up her joint!
@boscohorowitz said, ” I love both magical AND rational thinking, I know they must be kept separate in one’s mind.
Like Porgy said, “Well, that ain’t necessarily so.”
You CAN have magical and rational thinking together in the mind at the same time, just as happily compatible as snuggly bunny rabbits, but there’s a knack to it. Rational thinking is magical thinking with the brakes on, and magical thinking is rational thinking with accelerator only and fuck the brakes. You can easily do both at once by covering the brakes, going easy-does-it on the gas . . . and a sharp watch out for cops!
Agreed, DBSmith. I remember thinking I should rewrite that expression, cuz what I meant was that one must always maintain the distinction between the two, not confuse magical with rational et vice-versa.
“Rational thinking is magical thinking with the brakes on, and magical thinking is rational thinking with accelerator only and fuck the brakes. ”
I LIKE that.
Thanx, WES! Santa’s story became something of a heroic quest for me during the weeks I sat in the chair forever and ever while various illnesses toyed with me. My goal is to write something that brightens to core glow of Santa, blows off all the commercial dust, and returns him to his proper status: sainthood. I treat the subject with deep reverence.
Learning from the lockdown “left” that Freedom and Free Speech are “dangerous and right-wing” activities sure has been clarifying.
HONK, HONK !
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