************* The following message is relayed to you by trom@lists.newciv.org ************ -----Victor Pelevin. Buddha's Little Finger: 'And that'll do it?' 'That'll do it, Shurik,' said Volodin, dividing up the contents of the bundle, a dark heap of something dry and brittle, into three unequal portions. 'You'll end up running all over the forest trying to find a place to hide. And you'll be running too, Kolyan.' 'Me?* the third person sitting by the fire asked in a deep bass. 'And just who am I gonna be runnin' away from?* 'From yourself, Kolyan. From your own self,* Volodin answered. 'I ain*t never run away from no one,* said Kolyan, picking up his portion with a hand that looked like the body of a toy dump truck. 'You better watch your mouth. Why'd I wanna run away from meself? It don't make no sense.' 'I can only explain it by using an example,' said Volodin. 'Give us an example, then.' Volodin thought for a moment. 'Okay, just imagine some low-life scum comes into our office, sticks all his fingers up in the air and says we should be sharing. What would you do then?' 'I'd drop him,' said Kolyan. 'You what? Right there in the office?' Shurik asked. 'That don't matter. They gotta pay for givin' us the fingers.' Shurik slapped Kolyan on the shoulder, then turned to Volodin and said reassuringly, 'Course not in the office. We'd set up a shoot' 'Okay,' said Volodin. 'So you set up a shoot, right? And then what happens? Let Kolyan answer.' 'Clear enough,' Kolyan responded. 'We goes round there, and when that jerk turns up I says - right mate, give us all the dirt on yerself. He starts jawin', and I waits a minute and nods my head, like, and then I blow him away . . . Yeah. And then all the rest too.' He looked at the tiny mound of dark garbage on his palm and asked, 'Just swaller it, just like that?' 'Chew it properly first,' said Volodin. Kolyan dispatched the contents of his palm into his mouth. 'Smells like mushroom soup,' he stated. 'Swaller it,' said Shurik. 'I've eaten mine, no problem.' 'So you blow him away,' Volodin said thoughtfully. 'So what if he gets the drop on you two first?' Kolyan pondered for a few seconds, working his jaws, then he swallowed and said confidently, 'Nah, he won't.' 'Okay, then,' said Volodin, 'Where are you going to drop him, right there in his wheels, from a distance, or will you let him get out?' 'I'll let him gerrout,' said Kolyan. 'It's only woodentops as drops jerks in their wheels. Holes everywhere, blood too - why go spoilin' a nice set of wheels? The best kind of hit is when he comes over to our wheels.' 'Okay, so let's take the best case, imagine he's already got out of his wheels and comes over to yours and you're just about to blow him away, when you see . . .* Volodin paused significantly, 'when you see it isn't him standing there, but you. And you've got to blow yourself away. Don't you reckon you might drop a marble or two?' 'Sure I would.' 'And when your marbles are bouncing, it's not really chicken to kick into reverse?' 'Course not.' 'So you'd cut and run, because it wouldn't be chicken?* 'if it ain't chicken, sure.* 'So it turns out you'd be running away from yourself. Get it?' 'Nah,' Kolyan said after a pause, 'i don't get it. If it ain't him, but me, then where am l?' 'You're him.' 'Then who's he?' 'He's you.' 'Nah, I just don't get it,' said Kolyan. 'Well, look,* said Volodin, 'can you imagine there's nothing at all on every side of you, nothing but you? Everywhere?' 'Yeah,' said Kolyan. 'I've been that way a coupla times from smack. Or after basing, don't remember which it was.* 'Then how are you going to blow him away, if there's nothing around you except you? No matter which way you deal it, you end up planting lead in yourself. Dropped your marbles, haven't you? Right. So instead of blasting him, you do a runner. So now try figuring that by numbers. Seems to me like you'll end up running away from yourself.' Kolyan thought for a long time.------
Any flows are directed to yourself :-) 16.12.2012, 15:59, "trom-requ...@lists.newciv.org" <trom-requ...@lists.newciv.org>: > Send Trom mailing list submissions to > trom@lists.newciv.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > trom-requ...@lists.newciv.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > trom-ow...@lists.newciv.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Trom digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. RE Vengeance Mechanism Lecture (Colleen K. Peltomaa) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:36:29 -0500 > From: "Colleen K. Peltomaa" <cygnifi...@gmail.com> > To: Trom@lists.newciv.org > Subject: [TROM1] RE Vengeance Mechanism Lecture > Message-ID: > <caf4m2-1fzigsazufcdsjw4v35zg01wf9amfcgthtvkyw-k7...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Been running 8 classes of overwhelms, listening to Dennis' lecture on > Vengeance mechanism over and over again, each time bringing more insight > into my own mind. > > Q: Why oh why do I feel compelled to punch someone right after they punch > me? (Dennis asks and answers this question) > > A: Because I want to hurt myself on a via :-) ROFL > > Still line charging at how serious I have mocked everything up. > > Thank you for everyone who showed faith -- I LOVE this "activity" > > love and laughter, colleen > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.newciv.org/pipermail/trom/attachments/20121215/d157e5ac/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Trom mailing list > Trom@lists.newciv.org > http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom > > End of Trom Digest, Vol 101, Issue 5 > ************************************ _______________________________________________ Trom mailing list Trom@lists.newciv.org http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
