Have a seat, exhale, tilt your head to the right, now the left, inhale…slowly. Now lean in a little. Don’t forget to blink from time to time. Follow these words. Allow them to take you away–if for a moment, elsewhere. Keep in mind a proper posture. Allow the noises that surround you to numb you…
“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
“Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.”
“All thinking men are atheist.”
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
This is not the first draft. I deleted three other lines that used to be where this one is now. Ghosts fighting…
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
I don’t need the money, dear. …
