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Amen! When are your Aphorisms&Maxims going to be published,Jeremy? I like the idea of stripping it all down to the bone without talking down to anyone or simplifying to silliness.

Thanks, Terje! There’s definitely something to be said for cutting to the chase and getting rid of excess verbiage. I’d love to do some more publishing some day, but frankly the annoyances of looking for a publisher will likely keep me self-publishing for a good long time.

A voice awoke me one night a few weeks, speaking to me in Norwegian, something that translates into English as approximately “a stranger is your self” with an astonishingly gentle urgency - I couldn’t sleep after that, and struggled making sense of it all, you know, trying to make it fit, I mean - in some way, yes, I reckon there is no difference between us - strangers or not, but that is not the same as what the voice intended, it went further inside. Waking up for the second time, at work, I met the gaze of a customer, and knew what it was I knew, that the voice spoke to. I’m sure the archon does not like that. For me to wake up a second time, it took the momentous courage of a stranger to meet my gaze.

Wow, that’s really amazing! I find the idea of the “stranger as self” very powerful, and I think it’s a coded teaching found in the Allogenes character.

The last aphorism - I generally find that one or two “things” pick up us and refuse us the leisure of entirely repressing them, or entirely resist their consequences. Whatever I have tried to hold on to, cheerfully waved bye-bye every time I have voided myself of ideas and images.
On the other hand, I have no number for the times I meet them on the rebound.

Definitely. I’m thinking especially, though, of our postmodern tendency to– rightly or wrongly– avoid any kind of “labels.”