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REAListic optimIST
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i was glazed as ham absorbing light waves from a box made my sony. some wonderful show about nothing was on, and i watched without seeing.
for some reason, i was ont he precipice of lay-z-boy mountain, dangling on the edge of my seat in anticipation of something i knew not of.
i then fell of the chair which had fallen through the floor to the basement and beyond. when i hit, the floor gave way, and i descended another level.
it was then that the x-ray goggles i was born with kicked in, and i saw the levels. well, some of them. so, i asked the sage in the basement above me:
"why do all country songs, mostly all commercials, most movies, and some plays and books appeal only to the first level, completely on the surface?"
the sage replied "it is the first level which must be an easily crossable bridge to the second where something not quite as obvious needs to be presented as a method.
"a method of teaching and communication. the duty of the second level is to hint at the location of the bridge to the third, and to show shallow symbolism."
then a nike commercial came on.
spring, 1994
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