June 14, 2001

  • Tourist or shipwrecked?  What's the difference?  Isn't the shipwrecked one a tourist in a predatorial universe?  And isn't the tourist potentially shipwrecked in the event that the conveyance of tour fails/derails?  The two are contingently related.


    Apollo or Dionysus?  What's the distinction?  Wouldn't Apollo become a party-goer in an unremittingly comic universe?  And might not Dionysus abandon his pipes, the celebrative and seductive pipes of Pan, and sober to the quo of status if colliding planets and exploding stars (dis-asters) were daily fare?  The two are embryonically entwined.


    Cyrano or Shylock? What's the contrast?  If there were no one to love in the entire world, would Cyrano have spawned his romantic enchantments?  If commerce came to a halt, would Shylock have spun his financial wheels grinding flesh in a hellish rut?  The two are contingently predicated upon their tragic apprehensions of existence, though split irrevocably upon separate courses.  Yet both were very misunderstood.


    Shakespeare or Howard Stern?  What's the disparity?  Apples and oranges are actually very comparable.  Both are fruit that fit in the palm of the hand.  Both have skin, juice, sweetness, pulp.  Bach or Pachabel? George, John, Paul, or Ringo?  Prince or the Artist formerly-known as Prince?


    The Taoists of ancient wisdom-infested China claim that light and dark, high and low, good and bad, beauty and ugliness must coexist.  What is beautiful if everything is beautiful? Nothing.  Nothing is high if nothing is low.  There is no shadow without light.


    Yet life is short.  So choose.  Lest you huddle lowly in the dark shade of an answer to a question that you are afraid to ask.


    Mary Ann? or  Ginger?


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