[lit-ideas] Re: I think I'll come back as a squirrel next time
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:55:19 -0500
Ritchie:
> A life of sisyphusistic nut lugging, while threatened by dogs, foxes,
fleas,
> eagles, snakes and rabies?
Sisyphusistic? The sound of that does damage to my soul. A shudder
shudders through my body at the sound of it. Until I said that word to
myself, I had not believed anything in existence could be intrinsically
evil. I have changed my mind. Please don't ever use that word again.
Please.
Now, on to squirrelly concerns. Andy admires squirrels. That doesn't
surprise me, I admire them too. They are industrious, whereas I'm plainly
not. I was taught that I should be, and I agree that I should be, but it's
just not in me. For that reason, I admire it in others. I don't envy them
their industriousness, I just admire it. Like the old joke: "I love work.
I could watch it for hours." What does surprise me is how many people hate
squirrels. "Bushy-tailed rats," they call them, and laugh seeing them fried
on electrical transformers or as roadkill or as cat capture. People can be
so cruel. I not only admire squirrels, I'm grateful to them, they remind me
of how I could be if I had any character. They make me realise that
nobility is latent in me, and that if I'd just reform my life, I could be
all noble like, and just the awareness of that potential in me makes me feel
noble enough that I don't feel any urgency about reformation. I am very,
very grateful to squirrels. People who hate squirrels -- I don't know.
They're probably industrious souls who resent squirrels for reminding them
how much fun they're missing out on.
Mike Geary
thinking about things I should be doing
in Memphis
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