I didn't really love my college education. There just wasn't enough chemistry. Lots and lots and lots of social science. Not much social scene. I took a trip one fall.
There was a journalist there, and I'm sure I will get this wrong but the gist of his argument was that you cannot count anger or melancholy. You can't answer the question, 'How many courages have you shown in your lifetime?' You can't say, 'She gave me 7 warmths and helped me feel a dozen nostalgias.' The most important things do not count.
I gave it my best by arguing that what noncount really means is that you cannot place a number on certain things. Determination is priceless. Hope cannot be quantified. You cannot count the most important things.
His girlfriend had just flown halfway around the world to break up with him in person, and maybe see Prague in the process, check two life-time items off her list with one stone. He won the argument for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was his recent sadnesses. I was full of pities for the poor guy, and twice as many regrets because I have to admit on at least one occasion I thought, 'I wonder what she looks like? I hear she's single.'
I am packing up my bags, and am looking forward to hiding away and writing pages and pages of a history that isn't even close to true.
My pen is pumped.
7 comments:
Truth just gets in the way. Writing fiction hurts less.
How awful would it be if someone ripped your heart out and it was a hunk of flank steak? Cue the disappointment, but possibly not the surprise.
Come to think of it, education is another one of those things that doesn't really count.
(In Canada, we call it undiversity.)
sir, if by 'heart' you mean 'colon,' i think this is actually quite common.
peefer, i think it depends on the university. SOME ARE RATHER WELL ENDOWED AND HARD TO GET INTO.
If stuff like warmth and pain and joy can't be quantified, then is it fungible?
Too bad it can't be traded "Ill trade you my malaise for your bitterness."
i guess these sorts of things could be traded if you could make japanese anime illustrations of them with extravagant code names. like, i've got a level 3 Confusatoria with 120 ATK and 35 DFNS mage, and i am totally willing to trade for your level 3 Esteemikio even tho it's like got only 40 WHITE MAGIC, but has a 95 Dark Arts block.
"level 3 confusatoria"
that's SO what I'm calling my lady parts from now on!
And here I thought that was a really red potato in that thar' pan.
P.S. I had to put down my writing utensil after that last line. Single entendre only there.
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