Meaning of meaning

MEANING…

according to Information Theorists,
Linguists, & Systems Analysts if not
Poets, Saints, Young People & Grail
Seekers

…is defined as A Difference that
Makes a DIFFERENCE as
opposed to a difference
that don’t make any
difference of which
there are many

The difference between
a difference that makes
a difference and a
difference that
don’t make
any difference
is itself a difference
worth conjuring &
ought not to be confused
with a difference that
does and a difference
that don’t, if you can
help it.

You may test your differential
equations and their meaningful
significances against the following
samples calling out to me from
your Basement Writer’s Specimens:

The Difference Between Friday
and a Fried Egg

Between harassing chestnuts in
the coals and a day full of hips
and tits

Between pulling the plug
of the clock….

and the spontaneity of getting
caught up in…what gives it
its power

Between the dress in the dumb
waiter and lounging Chinamen
with long mustaches.

Between 12 in the middle of
belief. and spin fate strings in
dew laced spider’s milk.

Your safety was surreal then…
pulling corpses in sections
with the slowness of stale
hips, legs, arms, one after
the other all hanging off
the stability of a cane

See how they run?
Meaning = a difference
that makes a difference
(as opposed to one that
don’t)

Mind Minding Mindfully

How Nonsense
Sharpens the Intellect
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html

Why do you write?
Why do you read?
What’s the difference?
What’s the relationship?
What’s the difference
between the difference
and the relationship?
Is it a difference that
makes a difference?
Is it a relationship
that makes a difference?
Are these questions
stunningly stupidly
significant & worth
the study of students
or simply stupid and
insignificant? What’s
the difference? What’s
the relationship? Is it
like Friday and a Fried
Egg?

Like, I said.
Not IS.