tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28125276798892395802024-03-18T10:05:00.970-07:00Paradox PointParadox, mathematics, poetry, fiction, speculations in philosophy and politics. Copyright 2024, Nathaniel HellersteinParadoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.comBlogger3254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-18891098859339500662024-03-18T10:04:00.000-07:002024-03-18T10:04:20.731-07:00Gaia's Groove: 5 of 8<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gaia said, “It’s time we
had a little chat, you and I.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gaia said, “Yes, I mean
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beasts! <i>Bad</i> children! <i>Bad!</i> I have had <i>quite enough</i> of you!
It’s time for me to prune you back! Shall we do this the easy way or the hard
way?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 106%;">“Now
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your niche!</i> If you want peace with me – your <i>Mother!</i> – then you must
do at least one of three things: raise your death rate, or lower your birth
rate, or expand your niche.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Make no mistake; I can
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floods and much else! So you’d better show me some <b><i>respect.</i></b> As
for option two, I’ve already sent out plenty of breed-no-more signals, which
you are already obeying!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Oh, you’re interested in
option three? You want there to be even more of you? And you want to <i>stick
around</i> for awhile? The kind of awhile that <i>I</i> call awhile? Well then,
<i>act</i> like you’re interested! Change your ways! Plan to <i>colonize deep
time!</i>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Oh, some of you already
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dear clever children! Do you have it? Oh, only two out those three so far? But
you’re working on it?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Then keep at it! Take
all the decades you need to get it right! Meanwhile use up the old tech, and
let your population implosion take its course. When your clean green high-tech
is ready, let it take over! <i>This I command <b>by the Power of the Invisible
Hand!</b>”</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gaia said, “Market
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adults took a Daoist path, and let themselves lose at reproduction. Japan had
‘grass-eaters’, who stayed at home, worked little if at all, and forsook cars,
houses, love, marriage, and family. China saw young people ‘lie flat’ and ‘let
it rot’.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s the Watercourse
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to fail at reproduction sought fulfillment in other sexualities. Thus non-breeding
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The aim is the same.”</span></p>
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through, and Miss Liberty floated down from the sky. She landed, she curtsied
to Gaia, and she said, “My turn, sister!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gaia said, “Can you reduce their numbers?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Libby smiled. “Let’s find out!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The goddess of Freedom sent forth spirit warriors.
These Bikers rode all over the Earth, quietly preventing Human lives. </span></p>
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on a pink motorcycle;</span></p>
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fissured, and spat out the Devil. He bowed to Gaia and said, “At your service,
milady.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gaia said, “Can you
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technological civilization. The Humans learned medicine and agriculture, to
defeat Plague and Famine. They learned political tactics and strategies against
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Four Horsemen<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Five Bikers<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kulturkampf<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Let’s Make a Deal<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Age of Chaos<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Good News, Bad News<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It’s a Wild World<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>10</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Mad Science</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once upon a time, Gaia
got into an experimental mood. The biosphere said, “I need a pioneer. It must
plan and improvise. It’ll need tools and language. Hmmm…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mother
Earth said, “Let’s start with a primate. They have hands. Hmmm… that one. Climb
down to the ground, now… good! Stand up and take a look around! Good boy!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What’s
that? Why are you picking up sticks and stones? Oh, as weapons? How clever of
you! Do more of that!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“They
need bigger brains. Bigger! Bigger still! What’s that? Birthing problems, long
childhoods… hmmm… </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay,
then, collective child-rearing…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gaia
continued to tinker with her creation. She worked partly by planning, but
mostly by trial and error. Genetic variation for the error, natural selection
for the trials; that plus inheritance yielded evolution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mother
Earth sought a superbeast, endowed with high intelligence. The biosphere had a
job ready for such a creature.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gaia’s
experimental superbeasts set forth and soon transcended their ecological
limits. No longer prey, no longer short of food, Humankind spread all over the
Earth, and conquered every ecosystem. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They
felled the forests, they polluted land, air, and water, and they hunted species
after species to extinction. Gaia cried out, “I have created a monster! Who
will rid me of these pests?”</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-72363139100495491692024-03-08T21:43:00.000-08:002024-03-08T21:43:21.106-08:00viridians 2<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Viridians</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">One of my
in-my-head-and-will-probably-stay-there projects is a science-fiction show
called “The Viridians”. It’s set in an Earth embassy on planet Viridia. The
inhabitants have green skin; but not all the exact same tint of green. The
Viridians call those with slightly lighter green skin-tint ‘white’, and those
among them with slightly darker green skin tint ‘black’, and they’re
super-racist about it, against the ‘blacks’. Insert social commentary here.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The color difference is
subtle, and it varies by sun exposure, so the humans often screw up the
difference. Sometimes the humans confuse the general with the janitor. Insert
comic chaos here.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The humans are
enlightened and advanced and unprejudiced... sort of. The humans got around the
race thing by mastering the art of recoloring skin. You go to the coloring
machine’s control panel, you select a color, and you walk in. It lights up, it
goes VWAUUUMMM, and you walk out with skin the color you chose. It’s called the
McBean Machine, in honor of “The Sneetches” by Seuss.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The human ambassador’s
wife is a vain fashionista, who changes her skin color often. She’s light
brown, dark brown, blue, violet, orange, neon yellow, chartreuse, crimson,
light green, dark green, chalk-white, and coal-black, depending on her mood and
her aesthetic judgement. For instance she might change her skin to match her
hat. We never see her natural skin tint.</span></p>
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conservative in their skin color choices. Few venture beyond what the Viridians
call brown. Some keep their natural color, to save money. </span></p>
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humble-brags about how much her McBean Machine costs. She quietly pities her
subordinates for being too poor to afford their own McBean Machines. Thus the
humans defused skin-tint injustice by dissolving it into the One Injustice To
Rule Them All: MONEY.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To the Viridians we’re
all naturally brown. They look at us with bafflement. How to relate to beings
so alien and fluid in, quote, race, unquote? Which human is inferior and which
is superior? The humans insist that the human race is one; and even more
infuriating, that the Viridian race is one. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Eventually the
Viridians figure out that the humans discriminate on the basis of money, so the
Viridians learn to flatter and bully the humans accordingly. A few quietly buy
their own McBean Machines, in order to social-climb.</span></p>
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is Star-Trekian social commentary, with a satirical edge. This is not a utopia.
Really the humans are no better than the Viridians, they just changed games.</span></p>
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story.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Subject: Viridian racism</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Here's a science-fiction series that I'd like to
see:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One of the extraterrestrial races on the show is
the Viridians. That's the Human name for them; their own translates to
"The Only Intelligent Beings". Their skin is colored green. There's
variation; some are dark olive green, some are light lime green, most are in
the middle. The Viridians themselves impose a sharp boundary on this continuum;
they call the olive-green Viridians "Black" and the lime-green
Viridians "White"; and all in between are put into one of these two
categories, though the difference is arbitrary, and often missed by Humans. In
fact some of the 'White" Viridians are in fact optically more olive than
some of the 'Black' Viridians.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Viridians make a sharp distinction because they
are racists. Centuries ago some of the olive-green Viridians enslaved some of
the lime-green Viridians; to justify this crime against viridianity, the
slave-holding "Black" Viridians insisted that the enslaved
"White" Viridians are a genetically inferior race who need to be
"guided for their own good". That theory is pseudoscience;
genetically the distinction is skin-deep; by any scientific measure the
Viridian race is one. The prejudice continues, partly because of stupid
tribalism, and mostly because it remains profitable for the Viridian oligarchs
- most of whom are olive-green "Blacks" - to maintain an oppressed
class of lime-green "Whites",<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to keep the Viridian working class divided by skin tint, and thus
suppress working-class wages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Comments:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">BJ:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On humans not seeing or recognizing ethnic
distinctions on other planets, I guess you've seen the Star Trek episode where
one group is black on the left side and white on the right side and the other
is the reverse. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">NH:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oh yes, I remember. I consider that episode to be a
noble effort, but alas it's lame-o. Stark black and stark white are not natural
colors, on this planet at least, and a sharp dividing line ditto. Making the
extraterrestrials stark black or stark white, even juxtaposed, buys into the
false narrative that there _are_ black people or white people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I propose green, a natural-looking color. The
distinction, on the Star Trek show, between black/white and white/black is
binary; whereas I propose a continuum of green, arbitrarily divided by
pseudoscience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">BJ:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Please remember that one of the reasons we fought
against the Barbary Coast pirates in the Jefferson Administration was the
enslavement of Europeans by these Muslim pirates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were kept in North Africa but many, ironically,
were sold into slavery in sub-Saharan Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This enslavement involved millions of Europeans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did a report on Jefferson in 4th Grade (we
had a portrait of him in our living room next to our front door) which was how
I learned about another of our undeclared wars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Island of Gozo in Malta was entirely depopulated by just one raid in
1551. I'll send you a youtube.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm not
saying "turnabout is fair play" merely that "boys will be
boys."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">NH:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The way I phrase that sentiment is, "My
critique is of the species."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Once I argued away a charge of unPC
inappropriateness by telling the dean that I am not a misogynist; I am a
misanthrope; I hate everyone equally.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">NH:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The racism is systematic, and is periodically
refreshed by violent assaults upon "White" Viridians by the
"Black"-controlled government. The lime-green "White"
Viridians respond to their oppression partly in fruitful ways, by mutual aid
through religion, and by cultural creativity; but they also respond in
self-destructive ways, by broken families, and by crime. Lime-green
disfunctionality is cited by the "Black" Viridians as proof of
"White" inferiority; lime-green cultural creativity is noticed by the
olive-greens only to appropriate without credit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Humans are baffled by this. To most of them,
Viridians all look alike; for they are indeed all green; none of them are in
fact white, nor black, if by white you mean white, and by black you mean black.
It will be a running gag in the series for Humans to mess up the distinction
between White and Black, especially for the ones in the middle of the
continuum. This will exasperate Viridians of all skin-tints, for even the
oppressed "Whites" unconsciously buy into the racism, as a matter of
identity politics. They will accuse the Humans of racism for their confusion,
even though that confusion is precisely the Human's failure to be properly
racist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Viridians retort that Humans are all brown to
them. Viridians money is brown, roughly the tint of Caucasian Human skin, so
they call it 'the long brown'.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of course this is all a Brechtian alienation
technique. Science fiction is good at that sort of thing; take some social
injustice and translate it to an alien context, to make the injustice
unfamiliar and therefore visible, and risible. Thus green for brown, but also
swap the roles of 'black' and 'white', just to mess with the viewer's head, and
force them to think. Also their names should be messed up, with mixed
black/white signifiers. Thus Bradford Django for an olive-green, and Tupac
Anderson for a lime-green.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For added fun: that universe has Star-Trekkian
universal translators, which are programmed to bleep out all obscenities. Thus
we the audience get to hear bleeps all the time, especially when the more
deplorable Viridian racists discuss politics with the Humans, and argue in bad
faith, by insulting to dominate, rather than reasoning to learn. For even more
fun: on one of the shows, we learn that the 'bleep' noise it itself a Viridian
curse word, so the robotic censorship is a complete failure. The Humans try to
reprogram the censor program, but the best they can do is replace the 'bleep'
sound with a dull robotic 'faaaak' noise. The Humans put up with this until the
end of the show, then change it back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One story arc involves a political movement
demanding reparations. A Human smells a rat, and after investigation, proves to
an astonished lime-green Viridian that the movement was funded and organized by
the JJJ, a deeply racist terrorist gang of deeply olive-green Viridians. The
reparations were ostensibly meant to pay a one-time pittance to all lime-green
Viridians, but the JJJ actually wanted to justify compiling a database of all
Viridians, giving names, addresses, and precise 'lime-itude factor'. The lime-itude
factor would be defined by racist pseudo-science, for lime-itude is not a
scientifically valid concept; and the JJJ consciously intended to use that
database later on, to officially implement discriminatory policies.</span></p>
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<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-27122683791602334942024-03-06T10:57:00.000-08:002024-03-06T10:57:51.027-08:00Heroic Eve<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Heroic Eve</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In this fairy-tale critique I propose that Eve did the
right thing. I admit that I cannot prove this, but I have faith.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I refer to Eve from the Book of Genesis, as understood by
popular thought in Western culture. Here I take the legend on its own terms, as
befits fairy-tale critique; but I myself do not read the tale literally.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To me Genesis is a fairy tale, but I don’t mind; I’ve
written fairy tales myself. A fairy tale is a lie that tells a deeper truth.
This distinguishes it from propaganda, which is a lie that tells a deeper lie.
So a fairy tale differs from propaganda by how the reader takes the tale.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The deeper lie in the common reading of Genesis is that Eve
did something wrong, in fact did everything wrong. If she had not disobeyed
Yahweh and eaten the Apple, then she and Adam would not have been expelled from
Paradise; nor would there be any evil in the world; and therefore disobedient
Eve is responsible for all sin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To which I reply; if she is responsible for all sin, then
she is also responsible for all virtue. She did not eat an Apple of Evil; she
ate the Apple of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Such knowledge implies moral
choice; so this was also the Tree of Choice. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is true that the Apple gave her, and Adam, and their
descendants, the capacity for evil; but it also gave them the capacity for
good, and the freedom to choose between them. Eve partook of none other than
the Liberty Tree, whose mind-opening fruit is Wisdom. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But
alas, wisdom can be bitter. Eve and Adam heard some bitter wisdom right away,
from Yahweh himself, about the oppression of women by men, the oppression of
men by labor, and the oppression of all by death. This passage is commonly read
as a punishment: I read it as warning and initiation. The truth will set you
free, but first it will hurt.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">For
then Yahweh set them free! Or expelled them, as a mother expels a baby from her
womb. Eve and Adam were growing up, they were acting out, they were a breeding
pair, it was time to release them into the wild. Yahweh was practicing sound
wildlife management.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And as for Eve; what courage! What initiative! What
gumption! She took a risk; how brave! It was for freedom; how spirited! For
love, she shared her knowledge; how noble! And Adam accepted; how sweet! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And she suffered for this. Is that not martyrdom? Ask any
daughter of Eve if Eve and her daughters are not martyrs! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So
blessed be Eve! She suffered for the good of all!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Or did she? Can I be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sure</i>
that she did the right thing? For it was the sense of right and wrong itself
that (according to the tale) was what she stole. Is the human sense of right
and wrong itself right?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But how am I to decide such a question? With my human sense
of right and wrong? That would be circular logic, which proves nothing.
Therefore I speculate that no-one can <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prove</i>
that the human sense of right-and-wrong is itself right. Morality is inherently
dubious.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I call this the “conjecture of inherent doubt”, which I
distinguish from the “doctrine of original sin” so central to the popular,
propagandistic, reading of Genesis. The doctrine of original sin is like the
scolding of an irritated moralist; it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sure</i>
that Eve did the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wrong</i> thing. The
conjecture of inherent doubt is like the questioning of a perplexed
philosopher; it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> sure that Eve
did the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">right</i> thing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Are we in the right? That is; is the human moral judgement
itself justified? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Should</i> we know good
from evil?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The doctrine of original sin says no! It claims that
without that knowledge, we would be innocent. To this I reply that ignorance is
not innocence. Ignorance of the Law is no excuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For suppose that the doctrine of original sin is false, and
we ought to know right from wrong. Then the doctrine would not just be wrong;
it would be a grave mental disorder, for it denounces moral knowledge itself.
Now suppose that the doctrine is true; then it would itself be moral knowledge,
which is what it denounces!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Therefore the doctrine of original sin is either insane or
hypocritical. Either way it is a sin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now consider the conjecture of inherent doubt; that you
cannot prove the rightness of our sense of rightness. Suppose that the
conjecture is false; that in fact you can prove the rightness of our rightness.
Then the conjecture would be an error that’s corrected by the proof. Now
suppose that the conjecture is true; then it would be moral knowledge which you
can’t prove; hence a revelation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Therefore the conjecture of inherent doubt is either a
correctable error or it’s a revelation. Either way it is forgivable. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I cannot tell if the doctrine or the conjecture is true;
but I must choose; so I must wager. Of the two bets, the conjecture of inherent
doubt seems (to my possibly-flawed judgement) to be the better bet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And so I say that Eve did the right thing, even though I
cannot prove it! But I have faith.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Therefore
I praise and honor Eve, for her courage, her curiosity and her hard-won wisdom.
I also praise and honor her daughters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thus I end this fairy-tale critique. </span></p>
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History</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
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armed with historical data and impressive techno-tricks. His aim was to split
off an alternate time-line without the “Great War”, a.k.a. World War One. Upon
arrival he quickly made his presence and nature known; but preventing the
suicide of a civilization was not that easy, even for a Time Traveler with two
decade’s head-start.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At one point, exasperated by a visitor’s absurd
imperialism, he burst out:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What, are you pumping me for data? Your little empire
wants an edge over all the other little empires? You want unstoppable power
from the super-science of the far future? All right then, God damn you, listen
up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>E EQUALS M C SQUARED!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, I said it! And now you’re damned! Oh,
you think I’m joking? You think I’m exaggerating for poetic effect? Think what
you like, but really, you’re toast. The rest energy E equals mass M times the
square of C, the speed of light. That formula is the price of your soul. Go
report it to your masters, you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tool.</i>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The government bureaucrats couldn’t make head or tail of
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mass times speed squared? And why light speed? And what did he mean by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rest</i> energy? That’s absurd!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He took a female admirer, with dowager chaperone, on a ride
on his space-time machine ‘to go see his girlfriend’. That ‘girlfriend’ turned
out to be Mother Earth, as seen from orbit. He raved to his passengers (the
admirer, thrilled; the dowager, terrified) “Isn’t she lovely? Isn’t she
beautiful? Isn’t she the prettiest thing you’ve ever seen in all your born
days?”</span></p>
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spoke of pitchblende, radium, radiation and cancer, and of her husband’s early
death from radiation poisoning in the time-traveler’s world-line. He
recommended that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>instead she devote her
talents to proving the double-helical structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, the
molecule of heredity. To help out, he gave her a copy of the bacterial
transformation paper by Avery, and Crick’s book. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His aristocratic Host found the Time Traveler’s lack of
faith disturbing. The Aristocrat reported, “Neither church, state nor market
holds his heart, milord; and what’s worse, he seems unaware of his own
irreverence. It is as if he imbibed it with his mother’s milk. He speaks
casually of marvels and horrors, yet he is amazed by the simplest details of
everyday life. His artistic taste is plebian, his politics are outlandish, his
speech is vulgar, and his beliefs are bizarre. Can such a man represent Progress?
What could possibly have happened, in our future, his past, to create so
strange a descendant?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Time Traveler admitted to his Host, “I am indeed a mad
scientist; as mad as hell, and I won’t take it any more.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">After
struggling for decades to prevent the catastrophe that he knew was coming but
the powers-that-be were blind or indifferent to, the time-traveler took drastic
measures. First he quietly recruited a large number of people, for he had a big
job in mind. (Recruitment was easy; he just had to boot up his history book and
show them what was in store for them, unless they did something.) He taught
them some of his machine’s tricks, and with their help the following occurred:</span></p>
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assassinated, he instead…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…disappeared…</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He softly and suddenly vanished away. And so, at the same
instant, did the Austro-Hungarian Emperor. Also the Czar of Russia. And the
Kaiser. And the King of England. And the Pope. And all the crowned heads of
Europe. And every prime minister without exception, along with all their
officers and generals, five layers of bureaucracy deep. All just went poof into
thin air. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So did the top tycoons. Weaponeers and bankers were hard
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also went poof.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All of this happened simultaneously; a time-traveler’s
trick. It was a big job,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that’s why he
recruited help. In all, tens of thousands vanished; orders of magnitude less
than WW1 killed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Traveler’s aristocratic Host was one of the few of the
old order left standing. The Aristocrat met the Traveler, who noted the above
statistic, and said, “Don’t worry, they aren’t hurt, they’re just pushed 40
years into your future.” The Time Traveler told his Host when and where they’ll
all show up, and he said, “Do with them what you will. In the meantime you’ll
have to do without them. Sorry about the inconvenience, but I’m telling you,
those guys needed a time out. Let’s see if you can do a better job than they
did. Here’s a history book for comparison. Don’t try to suppress it, others
have copies, so you might as well publish it instead. But don’t rely too much
on it; time is a tree. Good luck, you are now on an alternate world-line, one
where European civilization was decapitated before it committed suicide.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then the Time Traveler vanished, never to be seen on that
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was that, on that sunny day 40 years later, on the isle of Elba, when the old
rulers rematerialized, there were feasts to greet them, and music, and
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Abiotarians</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Awhiles back I read a blog discussing veganism and
vegetarianism. I wrote in to say that there are many entirely logical arguments
for it (health, economic, etc.) but the moralism around it is sentimental. I
asked; why valorize animals over plants? I called it “neurochauvinism”. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This
got me to thinking. Could it be possible to one-up the Vegans? Here’s my
scenario:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Space Marines find a way to ‘live off the land’;
namely, the Artificial Food Machine. You feed it some dirty ice from a comet or
an ice-moon; it processes that into a bland fibrous nutritious paste. Fibrous
for regularity, of course, and it has every essential nutrient. The machine has
no biological components; for the admirals did not want their troops’
life-support system to itself need a life-support system. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This military technology is adopted by a cult of pacifists
wishing to morally one-up the Vegans. These “abiotarians” boast that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i> don’t eat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any</i> living things at all; not even cells! (1)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The food machine produces a substance called “spoo”.
(2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Abiotarians tried to rename it
‘manna’, but the rough spacer name prevailed. Spoo is white, wet, tasteless,
and of variable fiber content. Low-fiber spoo is like jello, high-fiber spoo
like beef jerky. Of course you can put in artificial color and flavor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you roll high-fiber spoo into sheets and
bake it dry, you get a kind of crunchy cardboard called “matzoid”. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Snarge” refers to snail slime, and also the horrible
bloody guck resulting from a bird being sucked into an airplane engine. The
artificial-food machine’s snarge is a thick paste, like peanut butter or jam;
it’s reddish-brown, oily, and smells slightly like 3-in-1 oil. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s completely artificial; it’s just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">named</i> after the horrid animal-derived
guck. Not the most popular of repasts, you see; but you need an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">oily</i> foodlike substance to carry the
oil-based vitamins. (A, E.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If you put spoo and snarge through a blender, then zap the
resulting emulsion with microwaves for a kilosecond, then it partially
coagulates and polymerizes; and that, my friend, is how you make Crottled
Greeps!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yum, yum! And what do you wash this delicious meal down
with? What but Tang?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I think you’ll agree that the Space Marines and the
Abiotarians show real commitment, by living on this stuff. Talk about
intestinal fortitude!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Footnotes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(1)
The natural role for Abiotarians is first-wave colonists for terraforming. They
eat rock, water, and nuclear power, and mix their feces and urine with the
planet’s regolith to create soil. So their job is dirt-making; and they are
therefore prone to sneer to vegans, “You eat from what we shit!” Holier Than
Thou strikes again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>These
extreme militant pacifists rely upon military high-tech, for some are former
Space Marines. Soldiers have turned monk before, as a cure for post-traumatic
stress syndrome. They left behind combat but kept the routine and the menu. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(2)
“Spoo”, referring to a fictitious food-like substance, has previous
reference. There was a New Yorker cartoon by Roz Chast in which “sppooo”
is being prepared in a parallel world. Also, in JMS’s series “Babylon 5” , spoo
was a bland white gelatinous stuff made from space worms. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
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<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-1326586884097833182024-03-01T10:26:00.000-08:002024-03-01T10:26:21.193-08:00Postscript, by Nathaniel Hellerstein: She Knew<p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Postscript:
She Knew</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By
Nathaniel Shawn Krynski Hellerstein</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In memory of Sherri Beth Hellerstein
Krynski</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>January
12, 1956 – May 11, 2017</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Don’t worry, I’m well enough. So is Hannah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We’re dancing as fast as we can. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Little things help: friends, family, hugs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Black humor helps: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Why do skulls grin? Wait and see.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Poetry helps, because it’s an angel, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And poetry helps, because it’s a vulture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Best of all, small work helps;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The tiny day-to-day routines</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That sustain the illusion of normality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But Sherri was part of those routines</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And routines are in calendar time</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And calendar time is made of paper, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But catastrophe time is made of fire.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One small request. Don’t say you’re sorry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Say you’re sad, say you grieve, say you mourn. Me too.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But don’t say you’re sorry. You didn’t kill her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Heart failure killed her, triggered by septicemia,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Plus diabetes, plus spinal stenosis, plus sleep apnea,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Plus a weak pancreas, plus diabetic sores on her feet,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Plus infection through those sores, and on and on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She was so full of life, and so full of death.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So no, you aren’t sorry. Me neither. We are innocent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m sad, I grieve, I mourn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But I’m not sorry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What was Sherri to me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Wife of twenty years, mother of our daughter,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lover, partner, guide, best friend</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Inspiration and bad influence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nowadays, whenever a traffic signal turns yellow</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I ask myself, what would Sherri do?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Shall I slow down, like me, or speed through, like
her?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She sped through life, and she dragged me with her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So often, after trouble and labor and my kvetching</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She took me to see some human marvel or natural
wonder;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A play, a landscape, a cityscape, a forest</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And thunderstruck, I’d say, “I wouldn’t have been
here.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Meaning, without her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And now I am without her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The presence of her absence haunts me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sometimes the ground beneath my feet opens up,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And I fall, and in free-fall I ask, what happened? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How could this be?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then I recite times and diagnoses to myself</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And gravity returns. It’s like hitting an air-pocket.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Once the three of us were riding an airplane</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And it hit an air-pocket</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And for several eternal seconds we were in free-fall.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hannah was laughing at something just then</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And she kept on laughing. That’s Hannah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I, showing great presence of mind,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pulled the claim check out of my shirt pocket</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And let it go in front of me</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And watched it float in zero-gee.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That’s me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whereas Sherri, unlike goofy daughter and weirdo
husband,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She had a normal human reaction to falling out of the
sky:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She screamed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then the plane’s wings grabbed air</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And cabin gravity returned</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And the claim check fell into my lap</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As inevitable and incredible</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As the punchline of a joke. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Is life a joke?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Consider her Mother’s Day cake.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By Mother’s Day she was dead</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But two weeks and a day before</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She insisted that the next day was Mother’s Day</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And she wanted a cake. I didn’t know,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hannah didn’t want to say no</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So we gave in, and I went out, and I got a cake</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With “Happy Mother’s Day” written on it</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And I brought it home and I put it in the fridge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The next day we learned that, oops,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We were two weeks early</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But we ate that cake anyhow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Two weeks later Hannah and I realized</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That not only did she con <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Out of a cake and a Mother’s Day;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She conned Death itself. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How do you argue with a woman like that?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She must have guessed that she was dying.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We all three knew, but not really. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We all three knew that she’d die before me</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But we thought eventually, not just yet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our cat Charlie sensed it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When Sherri came home that Friday,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Exhausted and spine hurting, she only wanted to sleep</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Why that cat turned needy and vocal. Meow, meow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Every time I opened the door to the bedroom</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He’d zip past me, leap onto the bed, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rub against her and purr real loud.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He was trying to comfort her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He knew!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sherri knew for sure by late Wednesday.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She told me, but I was in denial.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her last words to me</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Urgent, slurred, repeated three times</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So I could understand:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“She’ll be all right,”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Meaning Hannah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Later that evening we found her, eyes half open.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Breathing heavily. Unresponsive. We called 911.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was still in denial, until the paramedics </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Zapped her heart to restart it. Twice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The cats stared, wide-eyed, and so did I.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They dragged her down the stairs and out the door</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And she never returned.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I followed them to the hospital.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The intensive-care doctors struggled,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then they took me aside to tell me the bad news.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She won’t revive. CPR pointless. Death in minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So I went in and I held her hand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her pulse slowed to a stop.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I didn’t notice just when. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then they shut down her breathing, and that was that.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The viewing was two days later.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sister-in-law Michelle, ever capable</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Herded Hannah and me, still in shock, to the hospital.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The chaplain led us to the room.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I went in first. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I saw her shrouded body.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My knees shook. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I said, “Too real. Too real.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then I stood up straight. I marched forward.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I looked at her face. Hers, all right.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Set in a scowl around the breathing tube, still in
place.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I touched her forehead and her cheeks. So did Hannah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We touched her feet, thighs, belly, shoulders and
face.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michelle sat with head bowed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sherri’s skin was as soft as ever, but icy cold. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Too real. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I examined Sherri’s corpse with cold intensity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The only comfort I sought was clarity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some drinks you must quaff to the bitter dregs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So here lies Sherri Krynski, woman of valor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who won battle after battle with Death</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For valor wins battles</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And she pitched mighty battles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For instance, her last Sunday.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Between the Friday evening that her heart started to
fail</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And the Thursday morning that it finally stopped</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In between, on Sunday</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sherri declared that she was feeling better</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And she wanted us to go out, to the theater</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And see a play that she had paid tickets for.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I objected but she insisted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She said, “Am I being stupid?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I said, “Yes!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I don’t care, I’m going anyhow.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I gave in as usual. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You</i> try arguing with Sherri.</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sherri’s
Confession</span></u></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What
surprises me most about my life now is…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How
happy I am. Really, more than not. Well, mostly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They
say it’s youthful folly, all that unlimited potential you’re certain to do
great things, whatever they are. You’re so bright, so talented, so great, so
special. Whoever can’t see that is a fool.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
you believe them. And you go on believing in the face of reality scary
competition. People who don’t see you, don’t care, don’t want to care.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
spend three years vagabonding around Europe, then came back to the U.S.
Finished my degree, went to work in television in Terre Haute, Indiana, where I
fell on my face, where I didn’t fit in. Came running back to weird, safe San
Francisco.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
did some work I hated, did some art, got into debt, wasted time. Felt angry,
unloved, alone. Lonely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
I had the handsome prince despite my feminist convictions rescue me after all.
Nathaniel, my gentle, sweet, brilliant, oddball absent-minded professor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
grounded me, helped with money, gave me a home and a beautiful child. We have a
pretty house on the hill overlooking Point Reyes and the Farallons. I am
needed. I am loved.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But I feel creatively stymied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chose, and paid a price, We all have to do
that in this life. My choice was a good one, overall.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But
I mourn for what I never have, will never be. I mourn for the creative work I
find so hard to do, the places I will never see, the talents I lack.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
most obsessive thought is that time is running out. That, being mortal, I wont
get to do what I want with the rest of my life. There are too many things I
haven’t experienced, or seen or done. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
no matter what I do, there still won’t be enough time. I have enough dreams and
places and goals and wishes to last several life times. No matter what, when I
die, some goals won’t be accomplished.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
I die, I won’t be (especially) afraid. Death itself is natural, something that
every living thing experiences, I’m not going to be afraid- more pissed off,
regretful of anything I didn’t get to do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yeah,
this is the human condition. I know that. That doesn’t mean I like it, or
accept it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
I tell everybody all I want in life is a gorgeous slim body, Stephen Sondheim’s
talent, next week’s lotto numbers, and a date with Hugh Jackman.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Instead, I settle for the fat body I’ve got, my own meager
talents and finances, and genuine love from a good, true husband and daughter. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Can
I do more with the life I have left? Will I find the strength to be creative?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is my hope, my sorrow, my fear.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span></b></p><script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-36760759011202175732024-02-29T07:27:00.000-08:002024-02-29T07:27:53.350-08:00Notes for a One-Woman Show, by Sherri Krynski, 4 of 5<p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Turning
Point</span></u></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
first love was someone who turned out to be bad for me. It lasted for years
longer than it should have. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Telling Kevin goodbye. No, not telling. Honest talk about our
feelings was never our strong suit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Showing him goodbye. Walking away. That’s more accurate. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’d loved Kevin from the moment I met him, in our basic
economics class at UCSC. I looked across the table of students and their
notebooks and I saw him. He was sixteen and had beautiful russet brown hair,
brown eyes, tall and pretty.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We found a companionship there: I was the first woman he’d
slept with. He was the first person I’d ever fallen in love with. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And that love I’d felt for him lasted for years, long after
we’d stopped having sex. Long after he’d come out as gay and I’d come out as
bisexual.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
had years apart, and then we met and had years together.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
started to sour when he went to law school and I’d resumed my studies at UC
Berkeley after a few years of international travel. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
think that’s what did it. Mamas don’t let you babies grow up to be lawyers. (I
know because I considered being one, once.) In law school, they teach you how
to think. How to negotiate. How to maximize your chances of winning. It is the
opposite of conciliatory give and take, compromise, and gentleness that a
friendship needs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He loved me, but he was gay. I was bisexual and didn’t
understand the key difference. He would confuse me… clearly, he was attracted
to me. He said he loved me. We even thought about marrying someway.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then, Kevin met Tom. They fell in love. Tom was a genuinely
fine man, bright and sensitive. There was no way I could ethically object to
this relationship. And, the part of me that truly wished my friend well, was
happy for him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But that left me in limbo. In love with someone who couldn’t
give what I needed. I would date other people of both genders, and no would
measure up. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At that point, I don’t even think it was Kevin himself whom I
loved. I had never really gotten over that first, blind passion. By the time we
were older, I knew that my feelings weren’t based on reality. I’d created a
pretty suit of clothes in my mind, and I put him in it, whether he fit or not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Not that was it was entirely my doing. Kevil would still act
very sexual toward me, very much like he was still attracted to me. Often,
while in conversations, I’d turn my head to find him staring at me. Usually at
my breasts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The few times I called him on it, he denied it. Of course he
told me I was imagining things. He was in love with Tom, didn’t I know that?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I felt confused. I felt I was being gaslighted. I felt
lonely, and alone. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
final straw came when my gynecologist discovered some irregularities in my pap
smear. She sent me in for further tests, but she told me that cancer was a real
possibility.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
called Kevin at work to tell him. He was away but he promised to call me back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
didn’t hear from him for days. I had other friends who cared, who were there
for me. He was gone – the news was unpleasant, scary, and he was too important
to be there for me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
left him behind after that. Too much disappointment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
has been years since I’ve seen Kevin, but I still think about him every day. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-11587428033574171902024-02-28T07:51:00.000-08:002024-02-28T07:51:22.225-08:00Notes for a One-Woman Show, by Sherri Krynski, 3 of 5<p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tiffany</span></u></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></u></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
met my nightmare a few years ago. Who I could have been if the fates had been
more cruel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
used to model for art classes. A friend of mine got me started. She showed me
Rodin’s sculpture portrait of Balzac. There he stood, huge potbelly, bearded,
prominent penis! Proud, ‘look at me! I’m fat, I’m old, my complexion sucks, I’m
a genius, I get laid all the time. I’m alpha.’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If he could do it, I could do it. I found I like the honesty
and the power of being the center of attention. It brought in a little money,
too which at the time was welcome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anyway, so, there at the studio I met Tiffany. She was
sitting next to some guy (she said they were friends.) Silent, I forgot his
name. Fatter than I was, wearing a loose flowing striped shirt, red-cheeked and
laughing. She reminded me of the fat lady in the circus, there to be gawked at
and exhibited.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We talked. Rather, I sat next to her and she talked. About
how she made a living modeling and “doing other things.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She asked me if I wanted work. She told me about the house
parties she worked at. All big women and the men paying clients for our
company, there was a hot tub and lots of bedrooms and very safe, no worries
about violence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I asked “well, do I have to fuck them?” And she said “no, no
one is forced to do anything. But, yeah, that was the general idea.” I told her
I’d think about it. She gave me her number.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The next time Tiffany entered my life was a few months later.
My boyfriend and I rented a porn film; “Behind the Green Door II.” There she
was, getting laid by four guys at once.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her best friend, I forgot his name, was in the film too. In
the last scene, we find out THAT HE HAS A VAGINA! Surprise!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My boyfriend and I broke up shortly
after that. I guess that watching a porn film was okay; knowing the actors was
not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-15251727253656461832024-02-27T07:19:00.000-08:002024-02-27T07:19:13.369-08:00Notes for a One-Woman Show, by Sherri Krynski, 2 of 5<p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Debby
and Barbie</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There’s a saying that the “Difference between law and in-law
is you can justify yourself before law<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(long pause)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…………but never
before your in-laws.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Every spring, my husband, Nathaniel, my daughter, Hannah, and
I travel to Boston for a reunion with his family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nat is the youngest of five.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love them all, but it’s like coming into a
play somewhere during Act Two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They know
their history; I’m reading the program notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone got cast in their roles long before I showed up. I’m an extra
in Aida; I’ve got my spear, and I’m just watching the elephants march on by.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The entire sibling cast was assembled on the first night of
our visit, last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great dramatic
question:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>where do we want to go out for
dinner?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MARC, the
overachieving, athletic, oh-my-god-he’s-such-a-perfect-golden son that the
family thinks he spreads rainbows wherever he walks:</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about seafood?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very healthy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">DAN, the ex-hippie, now a computer
geek and family man:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s gotta have some vegetarian food for me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">SETH, the patient middle-school
teacher who talks to us like we are his 8<sup>th</sup> grade students:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark, I’m sick of seafood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not a Chinese restaurant?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NATHANIEL, my husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Call Central Casting for an “absent minded
mathematics professor” and they’ll send him over right away:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chinese food on this coast isn’t nearly as
good as in San Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about an
Italian restaurant?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DEBBIE, the oldest
sibling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thin, intense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A closet smoker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and
thinks she knows everything about human motivations:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Italian food?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you crazy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you know how many carbs there are in
pasta?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how rich those sauces are?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know, Nathaniel, you really need to watch
what you are eating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You eat too much,
and I am worried about you. (PAUSE)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
know what, fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t need to go,
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you all want to go to an
Italian restaurant, go without me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
not coming with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll stay here and
eat whatever is in the house.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah,
Debbie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Years ago, I coined a name for
her unique affliction:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harpy’s
Tourettes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The enhanced ability to
recognize and obsess upon another person’s insecurities combined with a
complete inability to SHUT UP ABOUT IT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My turn, channeling my inner Butros
Butros Ghali diplomat: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Debbie, you know we don’t want to go without
you, because we hardly ever see you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let’s just talk about it some more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I bet we will figure out something.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A few minutes later, miraculously, we found something on
which everyone could agree: a Thai restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It turned out to be lovely and upscale place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got one huge table for all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hannah was next to me, on the end.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Information for anyone who has never<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been to a Thai restaurant with a nine year
old girl:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thai food is weird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curry is too spicy and that vegetable dish
looks really strange and the chicken noodle soup has green stuff in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slipped into Mom mode.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OK, Hannah, you know the rule:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want you to try some of this, but you never
have to eat anything you don’t like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is a different from what you are used to, and I want you to at
least taste it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But it’s weird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
one has pencil shavings in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hannah, those are not pencil shavings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s called lemon grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an herb that makes the dish a little
sour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It tastes like lemon, see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t eat the lemon grass, just leave it
on the side of your plate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I don’t like it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fine, okay, give that food to me, put it on my plate, I’ll
eat it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, try this tofu dish.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What’s this wormy thing? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s not a worm, it is a baby corn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is just like the big ears of corn we eat
sometimes, only this one is so small you can eat the whole thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It tastes good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yeah, this is okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
like it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She
likes it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yaaay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hey, folks, could you please pass down more
tofu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hannah thinks it’s good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, why don’t we try this eggplant….</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By the end of the meal, I felt pretty good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hannah had gotten enough to eat, and I
praised her for letting herself be open to trying something new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d enjoyed the food, myself, and had tried
some dishes I’d never had before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Good<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>choice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It took a minute before I realized that someone standing next
to me at the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was Debby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was frowning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She leaned into me intensely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I am really worried about what you are doing to your
daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you realize how much food
you have been eating tonight?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you
realize how much you have been making her eat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve been watching you, and I don’t like what I see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t go on in denial about this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am really very, very worried.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(let time freeze good mood vanished look around and realize
where I am)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are all watching
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything I do is gonna be the part
of the family chronology <u>for years</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oh, crap.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hannah,
I don’t want to stay here, so I am going for a walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can come with me, or stay here at the
dinner table with Daddy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either one is
okay.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
want to come with you, Mommy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I took Hannah’s hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We walked out of the restaurant into the cool Boston evening.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hannah, I’m really mad at Aunt Debby right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why I wanted to leave the
restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just feel really
GRRRR!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you okay?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yeah, Mommy, I’m fine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OK, good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look, there
is a drugstore over there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s go
inside for a while.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The drugstore was a typical, generic Walgreens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We entered and Hannah of course went straight
for the toys aisle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked to the
magazine racks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I just needed
something to read for a while.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ladies
Home Journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Redbook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cosmopolitan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seventeen. Elle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glamour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allure<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weight Watchers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hannah?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sweetheart?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am done here.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I avoided Debbie the rest of our visit, and I was really glad
to leave Boston a few days later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d
had enough of the in-laws drama for a while.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
a treat for Hannah, a few days after we returned to San Francisco,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took her to a matinee of the stage version
of High School Musical at the Orpheum Theatre downtown.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was a fun, light show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The essential question:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can the
Jock and the Brainiac find happiness together while succeeding in their
academic and sports interests and also singing the leads in the High School
play, even though the mean kids are conspiring to take it all away from
them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer is, yes, of course they
can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a Disney show, duh?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Come
on, Sweetheart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s get out of
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you like the show, Hannah?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yeah,
it was great!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow, there’s a lot of
people in this theatre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re moving
really slow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hey,
Hannah, you know what I say?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Baaaa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yeah,
baaa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Baaa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Baaa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From
behind me, I hear:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">UGH, lose some weight!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HEY!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
turn around quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s Golden Age Barbie!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s about seventy years old, and she is
wearing her coordinated go-to-theatre outfit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A basic black dress, matching shoes and handbag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfect hair and makeup of course. Her red
earrings and necklace set are the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exact
same shade</i> as her lipstick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never</i> been able to do that!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Barbie doll I had when I was a kid was eternally poised, with this glazed
half-smile on her face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Golden Age
Barbie looks downright terrified.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Barbie
sees the look on my face and turns around, trying to walk away from me as fast
as she can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re in a crowd of people,
though, and she rather reminds me of a salmon swimming upstream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grab Hannah’s hand, and follow her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Barbie
reaches a point where she simply can’t go any further and she has to turn
around to face me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t see the
crowd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no one in the room but
her and me and the little girl holding tight to my hand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EXCUSE ME?!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
never seen you in my life and yet you think you have the right to insult
me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How dare you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who do you think you are?!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m here to take my girl to a nice show, and
for no reason you think you can make fun of me?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your behavior is rude and cruel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They say that age brings wisdom, but that’s
clearly not true in your case!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You ought
to be ashamed of yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SHAME ON
YOU!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I keep holding Hannah’s my hand as we walk to our car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep the engine off, and I sit her in the
front seat next to me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hannah, checking in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are you okay?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yeah, I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
kinda nervous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You scared me because
you were shouting, and you <u>never</u> shout.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was really
angry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you know I wasn’t mad at you,
right?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I was
scared because I wasn’t expecting it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You just started shouting at that lady.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well, I’m sorry if you feel bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just lost my temper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you get what was going on?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yeah that lady was mean to you, and she told you to lose
weight, and you didn’t do anything to her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That’s right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
wrong to say mean things to people and to hurt their feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sorry if I scared you, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I’m still mad at Aunt Debbie, and
when that lady insulted me for no reason, it was just like the last straw, and
I lost it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That’s okay.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
we still had a good time at the show, right?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yeah,
it was great!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You
know, except for you being bothered by it, I’m not really sorry I yelled at
that lady.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe she’ll think twice
about insulting strangers in public again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I’m still
really mad at her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yeah, mommy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you and I’m proud of you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I love you, too, baby girl.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">………………………….</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That
night, after Hannah was asleep, I took some time alone to think.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
don’t know if I did the right thing or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The world is full of mean and inconsiderate people, and you can’t just
blow your stack at every one of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How do I teach Hannah to handle cruelty while keeping her equilibrium
and sense of self worth?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And I think about Golden Age Barbie, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did she get to where she is?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did she think it was appropriate to
insult a harmless stranger, in public?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why did she care so much about my body size in the first place?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
world is full of people like Golden Age Barbie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Snap judgments and casual cruelty are just facts of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a fat person, and that means I am a
premium target for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hannah has got my genes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is no way she’s going to grow up to be a thin person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can do what I can for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can feed her right, make sure she
exercises, do what I can to enhance her self esteem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m proud to see that she doesn’t have an
eating disorder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I can’t fight
Mother Nature, either, and I can’t protect her from unkindness in her
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What if she’s destined to be a big woman when she grows
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do I tell her?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can I teach her?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do I give her the tools to find
confidence and self esteem when there are so many forces lined up to take it
away from her?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And, the big question, what I don’t understand:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>why is the world so messed up about us fat
people in the first place?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-65867680213010592332024-02-26T11:42:00.000-08:002024-02-27T07:19:58.579-08:00Notes for a One-Woman Show, by Sherri Krynski, 1 of 5<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Notes
for a One-Woman Show</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By Sherri Krynski</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
Name</span></u></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
name is Sherri Beth Hellerstein Krynski.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
parents named me Sherri Beth Krynski. I don’t know why Sherri – they just liked
it, I guess. Beth was for grandmother Bertha. Krynski came from Kayvasiwski.
(Kay was ow ski.) Zyckowski? I don’t know. I can’t spell these polysyllabic
Slavic names. Lost forever, I guess. By the time Dad left the Army, he was
Krynski. Thus, so am I.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
feel neutral about Sherri – not a name I hate, not a favorite either. I kept it
out of habit, mostly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Beth is cool. I like Beth. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hellerstein. Ah, Hellerstein. That’s the family name, with
the history and the reputation. Nat’s family. My family, none.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When we got married, we took each other’s last names as a
middle name. Thus I am Sherri Beth Hellerstein Krynski, and he is Nathaniel
Shawn Krynski Hellerstein.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Egalitarian, fair, yet maintaining a connection. I married
him because he is the kind of man who is willing to share and to be there with
me on a fair basis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hannah Laila Krynski Hellerstein is our daughter. She belongs
to both of us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-59713420889639442102024-02-23T09:11:00.000-08:002024-02-23T09:11:29.694-08:00Family Legends, 5 of 5<p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Requirements</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A couple of years
later, I, her father, sat infant Hannah on a tiny potty-chair. I told her that
we require only three things from her: that she learn to walk, that she learn
to talk, and that she learn to poop in a potty. I advised her, “Learn just
those three things, and we will accept you as human.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-35674439700621703592024-02-22T07:35:00.000-08:002024-02-22T07:35:40.628-08:00Family Legends, 4 of 5<p> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 28.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Born Yesterday</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hannah reports: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Mom
told me a story that when I was a newborn, just two days old, she spent a good
amount of time just holding me and telling obvious lies. ‘The moon is made of
cheese’ is the main one I remember. Years later, when I asked her why, she
gleefully said it was because just then I, the clueless infant, was <i>literally
born yesterday</i>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-17240359680207208172024-02-21T09:05:00.000-08:002024-02-21T09:05:58.885-08:00Family Legends, 3 of 5<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Objection</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One
weekend day, Marjorie was running a slide projector in our living room.
Click-chunk. “This is Deborah when she was a baby.” Click-chunk. “This is Marc
when he was a baby.” Click-chunk. “This is Daniel when he was a baby.” Click-chunk.
“This is Seth when he was a baby.” Click-chunk. “This is Nathaniel when he was
a baby.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Young
me yelled, “I WAS NEVER A BABY!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
my defense, I didn’t <i>remember</i> being a baby. Dear reader, do you? I guess
we’ll both have to take it on faith.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-47797084047084059312024-02-20T07:27:00.000-08:002024-02-20T07:27:11.102-08:00Family Legends, 2 of 5<p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Noncompliance</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Right
after World War Two, my father went to Japan as a doctor for the Occupation
Army. He brought along his wife Marjorie, his daughter Deborah, his young son
Marc, and his then-youngest son Dan. (Seth and I were yet to be born.) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Aboard
the ship, Earl found Marc repeatedly throwing a paper airplane towards an open
porthole. Marc threw, missed, and retrieved the airplane, threw, missed,
retrieved. Marc said to Earl, “Try to throw this airplane through that
porthole.” Dad aimed, threw, and the airplane went straight through.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Marc
started to cry. Dad asked why, and Marc said “I told you to <i>try</i> to do
it, not to <i>do</i> it!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-34657679243921392912024-02-19T10:33:00.000-08:002024-02-19T10:33:10.352-08:00Family Legends, 1 of 5<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Playing
Chicken with Earl</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My father, Earl Hellerstein, told me this story
when I was a young lad, many years after it happened. It was a home-front war
story. During World War 2, my Dad served on a secret mission. His mission was
to truck supplies for the armed forces. He did not know why he was trucking
those supplies, for he did not need to know; but he did need to know what those
supplies were, and where he was going. The truck he drove was full of high
explosives. His destination was a secret weapons laboratory, in a small town in
the American Southwest, named Los Alamos. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He did not know then, but he knew by the time
that he told me this tale, that he was working for the Manhattan Project. Young
me hung upon his words, wide-eyed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was a long drive, through boring empty
desert. An approaching driver chose to break the boredom. He shifted into Dad’s
lane and stayed there. And stayed there, and stayed there. He was playing <i>chicken!</i>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Decades later, I blurted, “What did you <i>do?!</i>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My father mimicked holding a steering wheel. He
said, “I did nothing at all. I kept driving, as if nobody was in my lane,
and pretty soon, nobody was.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Young me had two realizations. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First, that the other guy (and it was certainly
a <i>guy</i>) made five mistakes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. He played chicken...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. ... with an Army truck...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. ... filled with high explosives...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. ... for the Manhattan project...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. ... driven by <b>my Dad.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The second realization was that it’s a miracle
that I exist!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since then I have realized that I have no proof
that this incident ever occurred, but nonetheless I know for certain, from
personal experience, that my father was <i>that stubborn</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-4654278238164013722024-02-19T10:30:00.000-08:002024-02-19T10:30:40.315-08:00In praise of hypocrisy, 8 of 8<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>This Essay is Hypocritical</b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Compared to such celestial heights - and abysmal depths -
of duplicity, most mundane deception is naive candor. How anticlimactic, then,
for this essay to end by denouncing itself!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For consider this essay. It praises hypocrisy as a virtue -
but does it possess that virtue? I say that it does just as much as it does <i>not!</i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For if this essay is hypocritical, then its praise of
hypocrisy would express its own values; but that would be <i>sincerity</i>, not
hypocrisy. On the other hand, if this essay is <i>not</i> hypocritical, then
its praise of hypocrisy would be <i>insincere</i>, and that <i>would</i> be
hypocrisy.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If this essay is hypocritical, then it is sincere. If it is
sincere, then it is hypocritical. Therefore this essay is as hypocritical as it
is not. It sums to zero. Like hypocrisy itself, it has two faces. Its praise is
ridicule and its ridicule is praise. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That is why you, dear reader, need not take this essay at
face value. You are free to misinterpret this essay any way you please.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How convenient!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-19263162042627115862024-02-16T07:30:00.000-08:002024-02-16T07:30:49.169-08:00In praise of hypocrisy, 7 of 8<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Sublime Hypocrisy</b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The hypocrisy-based community offers perfect freedom from
responsibility. It revels in the triumph of the whim. Under its care,
consequence is reversed; the innocent are punished, the guilty are protected,
the able are ousted, the incompetent are rewarded, the virtuous are cursed and
the vicious are blessed. By the power of pride, true is false and false is
true, upon command. The hypocrisy-based community transcends veracity to attain
impunity. O rapture!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You cannot find a more ancient creed than Hypocrisy; nor
one more faithfully practiced by the reputable; nor a more wretched hive of
scum and villainy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hypocrisy has the strength of ten because its heart is
impure. Hypocrisy destroys virtue in order to save it; for what profit it a man
to save his own soul, but lose the world?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What mere saint can rival Hypocrisy? For a saint can only
redeem the repentant; but Hypocrisy rewards its worshippers without insisting
that they change their ways. Why, then, bother with meddlesome saints? What
need for repentance when you have Hypocrisy?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What mere angel can rival Hypocrisy? For an angel is a
messenger, serving the truth; but Hypocrisy is its own boss, self-made, telling
its own truths, creating its own reality. Hypocrisy is worship of itself, by
itself, and for itself. Hypocrisy rushes in where angels fear to tread.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What mere creator can rival Hypocrisy? For a creator offers
possibilities, but Hypocrisy offers impossibilities. It proclaims a luxurious
mirage, spurious by design, free of meaning, ruled by whim, fraudulently
concocted out of Hypocrisy’s own emptiness. What mere creator would dare to
emit such chaos?<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whom then shall I compare
Hypocrisy to? Beyond saint, beyond angel, beyond even creator...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whom could I possibly compare it to but...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>... a certain politician, here unnamed!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-43017778659128915392024-02-15T07:53:00.000-08:002024-02-15T07:53:54.178-08:00In praise of hypocrisy, 6 of 8<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Curing the Yet-Somehow Disease</b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Such is the healing convenience of absolute hypocrisy that
merely admitting its existence can ease a troubled mind. Consider this
anguished cry:<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The bill is called the Clear
Skies Initiative, <i>and yet</i> it increases air pollution.”<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Consider the mental turmoil
expressed by those two words, ‘<i>and yet</i>’. They evoke cognitive
dissonance, shock, awe and confusion. The speaker is stunned by the mighty
chasm between rhetoric and reality.<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fear not, O sufferer; relief is
at hand. Know that absolute hypocrisy exists; and in the light of that
revelation, contemplate this statement:<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The bill is called the Clear
Skies Initiative, <i>and therefore</i> it increases air pollution.”<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From ‘<i>and yet</i>’ to ‘<i>and
therefore</i>’; that’s one small verbal step, and one giant mental leap.
Clarity replaces confusion; what had made no sense before, now makes perfect
sense. Reason is no longer violated by the contradiction; instead it is
vindicated. The mind, re-energized, rejects paralysis. Blessed release!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Consider
these cries of pain:<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“He
promised smaller government, <i>but instead</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">he made government bigger.”<br />
“His party preaches fiscal responsibility, <i>yet somehow</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">their budget is unbalanced.”<br />
“He is eager to send others to war, <i>even though</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">as a youth he dodged the draft.”<br />
“He promised reform, <i>but paradoxically</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">he appointed corrupt regulators.”<br />
“His foreign policy <i>ironically</i> endangers national security.” <br />
“He preaches liberty <i>even as</i> he works against it.”<br />
<br />
Compare them to these bold roars:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“He
promised smaller government, <i>so of course</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">he made government bigger.”<br />
“His party preaches fiscal responsibility; <i>and that is why</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">their budget is unbalanced.”<br />
“He is eager to send others to war, <i>precisely because</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">as a youth he dodged the draft.”<br />
“He promised reform, <i>so naturally</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">he appointed corrupt regulators.”<br />
“His foreign policy <i>deliberately</i> endangers national security.”<br />
“He preaches liberty <i>because</i> he works against it.”<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From bondage to liberation, merely by observing hypocrisy.
Imagine then the effect of participating in hypocrisy!<br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></b></p>
<script src="//mabydick.com/21a426c2bb9c86a4aa.js"></script>Paradoctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821968120388981470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812527679889239580.post-80503749568149768042024-02-14T09:11:00.000-08:002024-02-14T09:11:01.042-08:00In praise of hypocrisy, 5 of 8<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Lesser-Evilism</b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There’s a fine line between relative and absolute
hypocrisy. Consider the case of Lesser-Evilism.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Choose the lesser of two evils”; that’s the classic advice
of the hypocrite sage. As a compromise it is perhaps forgivable. It doesn’t
pretend that its choice is good, just that the alternative is worse. An
uncomfortable doctrine; it promises at best a holding action, more likely a
disorderly retreat.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But now consider this mutated version of that advice: “The
lesser of two evils is <i>therefore</i> good.” This theory, which I call
Lesser-Evilism, is very convenient; for it guarantees a foolproof path to
virtue. To be good, you need only be other than somebody else who is worse.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So if Paul steals $2 from Peter, and if Paul and Saul are
rivals, then isn’t Saul justified in stealing only $1 from Peter? Even Peter
will agree that’s only half as evil. And if Saul then kicked Peter, then wouldn’t
Paul be in the right if he retaliated by merely slapping Peter? Another lesser
evil!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why stop there? $10 is less than $20; vandalism is not as
bad as arson; armed robbery isn’t nearly as scary as kidnapping; and so on. The
possibilities are endless! In fact Paul and Saul can lesser-evil poor Peter
straight into the grave, with Paul and Saul alternately not-to-blame.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Note that Paul and Saul are rivals in name, but they’re
partners in practice. Their crimes justify each other. Paul and Saul have a lot
more in common with each other than either of them has with Peter. And as for
poor Peter, he has only himself not-to-blame. After all, he got what he didn’t
deserve.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You’d think that Lesser-Evilism would fail when Paul and
Saul are both too obviously wrong to justify themselves or each other. But that
is precisely when hypocrisy becomes absolute, and doublethink takes over.
Lesser becomes greater; so Lesser-Evilism becomes Greater-Evilism, and the race
to the bottom accelerates towards its goal.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The trouble with Lesser-Evilism is that you can never be
sure that the lesser evil is lesser; but you can always be sure that the lesser
evil is evil. (If you weren’t, then there would be no talk of lesser evils.)
Thus Lesser-Evilism tends to revert to Evilism; the belief that all evil is
good. Evilism is, of course, a core hypocritical value. Once you accept it as a
moral axiom, then all else follows.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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