“Have you ever thought about pursuing a major in philosophy?”
As my professor speaks, a vivid image unfolds in my mind.
I crouch in the underbrush amid a stand of trees, staring across the vast steppes at a shoal of enormous flying salmon. My eyes fix on my quarry: the largest of the lot, at least five meters in length, with the full text of the Dao De Jing inscribed in delicate characters across its scales, a gleam of Humeshine glinting off its eye in the cool evening light.
I shift my weight forward and ready my fishing spear. A net, not nearly large enough, hangs over my shoulder. I’m sweating in the full camo that I&
There stands a man, a lonely man, coat pulled close against the storm inside.
Fresh from the flames of eternity that still course inside him, exhausted by the weight of many lives, he stands alone in a lonely room, in and out of time. His eyes stare into nothing. These are eyes full of fire, the sort of fire that keeps you warm at night, the sort of fire that burns your hands. They have laugh lines that have never seen laughter, tear ducts that have yet to conduct tears. These eyes are new, yet so old, they have seen wonders beyond imagining, horrors beyond contemplating, galaxies age and die, worlds burn, stars fall to dust — but
“Have you ever thought about pursuing a major in philosophy?”
As my professor speaks, a vivid image unfolds in my mind.
I crouch in the underbrush amid a stand of trees, staring across the vast steppes at a shoal of enormous flying salmon. My eyes fix on my quarry: the largest of the lot, at least five meters in length, with the full text of the Dao De Jing inscribed in delicate characters across its scales, a gleam of Humeshine glinting off its eye in the cool evening light.
I shift my weight forward and ready my fishing spear. A net, not nearly large enough, hangs over my shoulder. I’m sweating in the full camo that I&
There stands a man, a lonely man, coat pulled close against the storm inside.
Fresh from the flames of eternity that still course inside him, exhausted by the weight of many lives, he stands alone in a lonely room, in and out of time. His eyes stare into nothing. These are eyes full of fire, the sort of fire that keeps you warm at night, the sort of fire that burns your hands. They have laugh lines that have never seen laughter, tear ducts that have yet to conduct tears. These eyes are new, yet so old, they have seen wonders beyond imagining, horrors beyond contemplating, galaxies age and die, worlds burn, stars fall to dust — but
I got my wisdom teeth out today.
The dentist said he would put me under. I suppose that doesn’t mean what I thought it means.
I thought I would sort of just lose consciousness, but the actual experience was more like going numb all over and sinking into an ocean of complete apathy. That was weird.
I don’t think the Doctor is a good man.
Before half of everybody who reads this starts yelling and/or punching at their computers, I’d better expand on that a bit. I never said, never thought, that he’s a bad man. The Doctor certainly tries his hardest to be the best person he can be, which is sometimes maybe a very good man indeed. Which puts him a step ahead of me, as I’ve been known to slack off, so look who’s talking. And one can certainly make the argument that the sheer amount of effort he puts into trying to be a good man is enough to make him one, especially since it seems to be good enough most of t
I recently discovered that there’s this bowling ball by Roto Grip called “Infinite Theory.” I wonder what its designers call themselves — infinite theorists? Sounds prestigious, or at least numerous.