Tuesday, February 08, 2005

If You Can Read and Write Why Don't You?

If you can read and write why don’t you? I’ve been bouncing off that question for years and it’s a question I came up with to ask myself. I get home and Lola is already there having come home early to lie on the couch and feel sick. I ascertain that there is no nausea involved, just a total lack of energy to do anything other than lie down. The Illini are playing basketball at Michigan tonight and life would be fine just watching athletic youngsters play each other while relaxing with a glass of Merlot.

The trouble with reading is that after a while it gets to be just like watching television, or waves on the lake or flames in the fire. Something to do to fill time while thinking. The problem with surfing around the internet is that there doesn’t seem to be any shortage of in the variety of ways words are combined these days. In many instances assemblages of words don’t even stand alone as discrete constructions, as now days they can be linked together in clumps of opinions and chains of thought. True or False: Blog links are topologically like atoms in large molecules and bulges in fractal patterns.