I don’t write in a journal everyday, but I have accumulated many entries over the past 50+ years beginning in 1966. Some items evolved into longer works. Among the leftovers little pieces survived. I thought a collection of these with a piece culled from the same date in a past year would make an interesting yearbook. The consistencies and inconsistencies of mind, skipping back and forth across time, provide varied perspectives. It is difficult to remember the context of the past we’ve lived; we also make suppositions about times that predate ourselves.

The few alterations from original drafts were to improve clarity. The worst of my work is not included. There remains enough mediocrity and immaturity to make me feel humble and you feel smart. There are also moments of accidental insight and incidental humor.

Author Stephen Crane referred to his little pieces as pills…apparently they were small and somewhat hard to swallow, but good for you.


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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Cartesian Humor

 

March 25, 2009  (I was 64)

 

         Cartesian Humor

Rene Descartes went into his favorite bistro

“Will Monsieur have a croissant with his coffee?”

“I think not,” he said and disappeared.

                         *

Two student friends were on the way to an exam on Cartesian theory. 

One stopped instead at a brothel.  He missed the examination. 

The professor inquired about the student’s absence.

His friend replied, “He would not put Descartes before the whores.”

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