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Many years ago I had such a profound insight in one of my dreams that I woke up and wrote it down on an index card so I wouldn't forget. Here's the pearl of wi
by WaltPurvis 5mo ago
Many years ago I had such a profound insight in one of my dreams that I woke up and wrote it down on an index card so I wouldn't forget.
Here's the pearl of wisdom I captured for posterity:
"Emotions — it's emotions that invented and fricasseed the invisible ravioli."
(I still have the card.)
- Intermernet 5mo agoAt least you now have a title for your autobiography!
- frereubu 5mo agoWilliam James reported that a friend of his who was experimenting with nitrous oxide gas kept thinking he'd solved the riddle of the universe when high, but kept forgetting what he'd figured out when he woke up in the morning, so he kept a pen and paper next to him while high and rushed down the following morning to see that he'd written "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout."
- GTP 5mo agoLove your pearl of wisdom. Don't know if this was the intent, but it made me laugh despite feeling a bit sad today.
- Hnrobert42 5mo agoLike Flaming Globes of Sigmund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Attack#Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Attack#Plot
- attentive 5mo ago"banana big but banana skin is bigger" - supposedly Orwell