This is part 2 in a blog arc instigated by Jim Sterne sending me a link to a nine year old article by Chris Locke, Faster Horses!. Mr. Locke was kind enough to let me quote from his article in my blog. I found Faster Horses! a fascinating read even though it is nine years old, ancient by internet standards, truly a Nothing New Under the Sun bit of writing in several ways.
I'm using Chris Locke's article as one side of a conversation, just to see if things really have changed. Part 1 had Mr. Locke waking up in the middle of the night and asking me some questions. Surprisingly, none of those questions were "What are you doing in my bedroom?"
To make things a little easier to read, Mr. Locke's article will be in standard text, my responses in italics.
On to part 2...
Now even I recognize that at least the first part of this represents a sexist notion at base -- though if we are to believe Freud, we have to acknowledge that people do, on however rare occasion, actually think about sex, and that the dreams one might have in the privacy of one's own personal bed are a good place for this sort of thing and nobody else's bloody business. But you write it down and send it to 2000 people and that line of defense is suddenly missing in action.
I think that's one of the reasons I tend to conservatism in my public writing. Then again, some of my recent posts have blown that theory all to h?ll, so what the heck?
So I played around with it a little. What about faster women, foxier horses? Possibilities there, true, but I felt it lost something in the translation. This went on for a while until the inevitable question occurred: WHAT AM I F?CKING THINKING?!?!?
You know, at a convention I attended recently, some people said I made them nervous because they knew I knew more about what they were thinking than they did. The missing piece in all this is that I usually don't care what people are thinking because, like yourself, I'm too busy figuring out what I'm thinking.
For isn't it the sad fact that most of us, most of the time, simply do not know? These thoughts come into our minds. Where do they come from? Where do they go? Some have theorized that it could be something we ate. Sardines, say. But do any of us really believe this? For example, what if I were to dream about e-commerce? What would I have to eat to cause that?
According to Bob Page, "I'm sure Joseph could say!" But the truth is and as I noted above, I really don't know.
(more to follow...)
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Links for this post:
- Chris Locke's Faster Horses!
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