Admittedly, No Olmi
Man, I look like Howard Hughes at the Bates Motel with these long fingernails perched atop the keyboard next to that worrisome fly. Except Norman would not kill the fly and I will, soon as I finish making this list of things to do, which will include cutting my nails.
I shouldn't have to make a list that includes nail cutting. I should just do it. I should do it after I take a hot shower so the nails are softer. I didn't put nail clippers on the last list and the pair I have, which I will for no particular reason use before killing the fly, have lost their edge. They'll work fine though after I soak myself in 20 gallons of hot water. Or I could burn a few gallons of gasoline driving to get the clippers, and forget the shower. But in my haste will probably also forget numerous other things which should be on the list but aren't, because there is not a list, yet. If the first thing on your list is to make a list and you accept generally that you don't write "make a list" on the top of a list, how do you get started?
Also, if you accept that in making a list you will invariably forget to put things on the list then does it make any sense to make a list at all? Why not just forgo the list and listlessly forget things?
I think people who make lists are superior human beings though. I really do. Make a list and check things off. That is how you go about being successful. But I can't decide what it is I would like to be successful at. Maybe I should start with sentence structure.
I can't even decide if I want to be a successful fly killer. Every time I look over and see it--on the bed cover now--without making the effort to kill it, I feel like Norman Bates, a thing with which I am not all that comfortable. I am not a fly-lover though, nor by not killing the fly do I want to be associated with a male Psycho who dresses up in old women's clothing, or worse, if that is possible, a member of PETA. I just don't know how much of myself I want to invest in the killing of this particular fly. And assuming I do kill the fly, then what?
Not to make you dizzy with theme shifts but how often is it that you make a really good list, the list to end all lists, one that includes--if it were lacking it--every item that defines your deficiency, do you then lose that list? Now this is not one of those questions where there is no wrong answer. There is only one answer and the answer is--every time. If you didn't get that answer then you need to re-work the equation. You can use the back of your list for scratch paper.
Scratching now, akin to itching. A fly in my presence makes me itchy. Especially around the eyes, which probably lends credence to the theory of me having some sort of allergic thing going on with my eyes, often crusty, the crust adhering to my lashes like crystals adhere to string dipped in hot water to which you have added sugar. You do this because you are a kid and obviously bored (why else are you making rock candy when you could be watching TV or playing video games?) and you have never done it before and that in itself is its own reward. Or punishment, if the thing you have never done before is putting your hand over a candle in a small jar to see how long it takes to suffocate the flame.
If I choose to be a particular Italian director and am comfortable with my content or comfortable more importantly with that which is missing, I can here finish by saying--FIN.
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