February 21, 2006
Overheard at Starbucks
"Spending time with sick old people I can see what a tenuous hold any of us have on reality."
---"That's why there's nursing homes."
"I can see it..."
---[sung] "His mind is squirming like a toad."
"How profoundly one's perceptions can be skewed, disassembled, destroyed."
---"Ah, the polis as hospice.
It took you long enough to figure it out.
We began thinking there was an underlying pathology that prevented you from understanding..."
[sung] "If you give that man a ride, sweet memory will die."