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Dating Xiao Xingchen came with something called the Fuck-it List.

"That's what I wanted to discuss with you. There are two kinds of philosophers here on Divine Wind. Aimaina Hikari, the man we will meet, is an analytical philosopher. You don't have the education to hold your own with him. So you are the other kind. Gnomic and mantic. Given to pithy phrases that startle others with their seeming irrelevancy." "Is it necessary that my supposedly wise phrases only seem irrelevant?" "You don't even have to worry about that. The gnomic philosophers depend on others to connect their irrelevancies with the real world. That's why any fool can do it."

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"No, no, I don't mean epigrams," said Peter. "Those are too analytical. I mean genuinely strange things. For instance, you might have said, 'The woodpecker attacks the tree to get at the bug,' and then I would have had to figure out just how that might fit our situation here. Am I the woodpecker? The tree? The bug? That's the beauty of it."

April 26, 2014 Days like yesterday cause me to question my relevancy;When small errors like fender bumps while parallel parking in the rain elicit disproportionately strong responses such as the angry shouts of the car owner who as he says “so recently washed the car,”When my apologies only invite further criticism,“It’s a big space,” he grumbles and storms back inside.I drive away,leaving the…

Are we growing up or growing irrelevant?

Such controversial statements make my blood boil at times. More so because I think there is truth and validity in such statements that I don’t want to acknowledge since it sounds subjective. I have spent my life growing in all facets of life – body, mind, heart, soul, intellect, education, experience, street smarts, book smarts, business smarts, etc., and the growth goes on. BUT WHY do I feel…