Phrases of the sort “words fall short” and “it was indescribable” impute a fault to language that it has no responsibility to bear. Before going further, so as to establish a foundation on which to build, a premise all should find acceptable: the inability to convey an experience to another, to a degree that recreates…
For one reason or another, I don’t recall it being thirst or hunger, with calm collection I set to wonder at the categories of food and drink humanity has yet to discover. It may seem that the point of view implicit in such a statement is neglectfully dismissive of the plethora and variety of consumables…
Imagine this yellow circle is a young man named Jack. Jack is friends with a young blue circle man named Jim. Being friends, Jack and Jim regularly share in each other’s company and engage in behaviors typical of friendship, such as discussing matters of mutual interest, jointly participating in recreational activities, requesting assistance of one…
People without progeny have difficulty conceiving of what it would be like to have a child. This is wildly unexpected. It seems their prediction effort should yield something more veracious, more definitive than an ever-receding mirage of uncertainty, especially since the future they’re trying to imagine is, in many ways, simply a reciprocal of the…
Water droplets suspended in the air congregate on the surface of a newly towel-dried body. Taking a shower in a humid environment without using the bathroom fan is asking for sticky clothes or bedsheets, whichever you might be slipping into after the clean. Getting into bed fully clothed, like the main character of my favorite…
Several months ago on the radio there was an interview with a scholarly-type fellow regarding the origin of laughter in pre-humans. Sorry about the series of words ending with the phoneme /o/ in the previous sentence; one of the twins from the prior post still lingers. The interviewee theorized that the earliest instances of what…
IQ is a stupid metric –hold for laughs– It’s arrogant for psychiatrists and others to believe that we’ve learned enough about the workings of the mind to be able to assign a numerical value to something as abstruse as a person’s intelligence. How softly humorous that I should utilize thesaurus.com to augment my vocabulary when…
These past few days I’ve been eating out of habit, not out of hunger. A glance at the clock. A cursory check of short term memory: how long has it been since my mouth was occupied with food and my jaws occupied with the chewing motion? This sort of thing has happened before, I am…
I wonder what the consequence of the following would be: if ever since the beginning of the human species (an undefined range of many years, I’m aware) newborns were endowed with all the knowledge that had been gained by humanity up till the time of their birth, so that teaching the material in school would…
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