I Get IT
Flannery O'Connor
laughed and laughed
at her own stories,
she said.
They tickled her.
"Wait'll they get a load
of this," she might could
have thought. A joker:.
she pulls our wooden
legs..
Immediate gratification.
St Valentine was clubbed
to death for curing his
jailer's daughter of her
blindness.
This happened February 14,
269. Get it?
Gregory Bateson would stump
students at Santa Cruz challenging
them to tell the difference between
Irony on the one hand and Sarcasm
on the other.
And then the relationship
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I choose, as a determining POINT in my life, to acknowledge a bullet fired into the armpit of my grandfather, Samuel Scoville, Jr. by a thief in the night sometime in the late 19thc.
The thief escaped, my grandfather having pulled his own pistol from beneath the pillow, squeezing off a couple of rounds and sending the burglar scurrying into the
For reasons of family notoriety, the incident was reported in both
In those days couples were not advised to be alone. Unaccompanied.
Sam took a steam-driven locomotive train down to
For one thing: YOU, dear Reader, wouldn’t be reading THIS HERE right now, resurrecting these words to walk around in your skull-haus this very be-here-now moment. So even you are impacted forever by that bullet.
(I could drive up to Connecticut right now, retrieve the small bite of lead, drop it in your hand and remind you how co-incidental our life is—how inexplicable, how arbitrary & selective our accounts, how much we omit which is also absolutely necessary, how inadequate our because & affects.)
The bullet is a NECESSARY but INSUFFICIENT cause of who-I-am, without which any explanation would be incomplete. Sam Scoville
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