Years ago I saw a cartoon of a salesperson at a tobacco shop coming from the back of the store carrying a hippopotamus on his back. The person at the counter yelled, “I said Zippo, not hippo!”
When the HIPPA form came out, all I could think of was that cartoon.
Ones and zeros. Day and night. Inside and outside. Steward and O’Reilly. Good and bad.
You’d think we don’t all live on a rotating, spherical orb revolving elliptically around the sun in a constellation on the move!
Hail, Sol Invictus and our umbilical power chord!
Nothing has changed!
I want to know what it’s like to be a pencil…to think like one…to feel like one…to embrace my inner pencil…to experience pencilhood.
I’m bookmarking this tool for my own benefit so that I can whip it out before I click on Publish from now on.
Yesterday’s post, i.e., the previous post, two guys looking through a telescope, more precisely, my commentary on that illustration, elicited a couple of useful comments that have served and will continue to serve as an important reminder for me to scrutinize how I write about what I draw much more carefully. The drawing said one thing; unfortunately, my commentary said something else; evidently, it said the complete opposite. And why? Because I hadn’t unzipped for myself either the paradigmatic or syntagmatic significance of what I meant to say, and instead I simply and quickly wrote something that I thought was funny. Not so.
I did go back revise the title of the post by inserting a reference to optical delusion. Too little, too late.
I’ll keep this heuristic tool, i.e., the quadrazipper, handy.
We try not to take sides here at portfoliolongo.com because there are so many sides to take. It’s complicated. We have discovered that once in a while two or more sides can be taken at the same time either because of the structure of the inquiry, or because it’s just funny, or both.
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