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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
 
New Features

I'm not making any resolutions to write or post more or less here in 2006. I am, however, going to add some new features. In this first one - and this may prove to be a crucial part of the setup in other literary devices I choose to employ - I start by imbibing, ingesting, or inhaling some substance or substances that provide for an alteration of my mental state and then I attempt to teach you a lesson in Eastern philosophy.

The Philsopher Asks

Does the butterfly succumb to fear as she peaks the first time through her torn cocoon and sees herself suspended hopelessly above the ground in a home soon to fail, to give way to falling, knowing it is only a matter of time before she plummets terrified all the while unaware of her transformation? Or is the transformation inherently known by the butterfly who unconsiously claws, no, tears the fibers of the cocoon away while her body automatically readys for flight and the conscious of the butterfly twitches with a hint, an almost-a ... a-something, an aware-ed-ness, or almost, almost one of those things, almost something but still only on the tip of her tongue - and is that inhernet knowledge enough to send her rushing forth through a new horizon ripped wide open? What is the nature of the butteryfly?