[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer with "is" ectomy
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:06:46 -0800
On Nov 21, 2010, at 11:04 AM, David Ritchie wrote:
> How the mind wanders when driving sure routes. On Thursday those Stanford
> philosophers who talk on public radio were rattling on about levels of
> reality and medium sized objects and Plato. I generally think I ought to
> find those folk more interesting than I do, but here was an exception to that
> rule; they featured an ex-philosopher who had given up his subject to go
> study ants. Humans, he explained, invest greatly in the idea of the self and
> the autonomous individual; ants, by contrast, get things done without any
> individual one ever having the first clue what the plan or outcome might be.
> "No accreditation," I muttered as I hurried across the wet way from car to
> tennis court. Going home, I left the radio silent and wondered what the
> argument might be favor of regrets. Piaf sings about the importance of not
> having any, but is there anything to be said in favor? Surely regrets are
> designed, apart from those truths or lies that people send in response to
> invitations, to teach you how to behave better in the future, or at least to
> prod you into noting the importance of seizing the diem? Apart from
> criminals facing the possibility of conviction, and politicians caught in
> pomegranito delicious, as it were, who now says, "My perfume is regret and I
> wear it with pride?" Did anyone? Why otherwise would I have the line in my
> head?
>
> Someone wrote on Facebook this week, I quote
> "ment to of been taking a photo haha"
> ment to of been taking?
> I confess I find such oddities interesting.
> I confess it.
> Have you noticed how guilty people can seem when Facebook comes up?
> "Well I have an account, yes, but I never really look."
> A hint of pornography here:
> some swell of regret,
> store of spent sand,
> touch of guilty secret.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
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