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Chinese Finger Trap or Gladitorial Combat or Quicksand?

Nils Loc August 29, 2020 at 18:56 1500 views 3 comments
You're not allowed to skip your engagement with the world.

You have to play the game.

Maybe the "you" in "I" can be erased while the game plays itself.

Maybe the "I" in "you" should become extinct.

But it feels rather like "they" are waiting for a combatant (killer) that will never arrive.

I'm not ready because my fingers are in a little trick. My stick is thin and brittle. My hair is caught in my belt. My feet are stuck in sand. Use the mallet now! Hit me into NOTHING!

I do not want to walk in the desert.

Coyote eat me.



Comments (3)

Sir2u August 30, 2020 at 02:59 #447577
Quoting Nils Loc
I'm not ready because my fingers are in a little trick.


If your fingers are stuck in one of those tube things don't pull, you have to push to open them.

Quoting Nils Loc
Use the mallet now! Hit me into NOTHING!


Human whack a mole, sounds interesting. But what or where is nothing?

Quoting Nils Loc
I do not want to walk in the desert.


I remember that song, that is why you need camel. Or was it a horse? Did you ever hear the joke about the ten day camel?
Nils Loc August 30, 2020 at 03:13 #447582
Quoting Sir2u
Did you ever hear the joke about the ten day camel?


Found it on reddit but it might be a mistelling. This is the chaos of mindless internet wandering.

You hit the camel's balls(?) between two bricks as it is drinking to turn a 7 day camel into a 10 day camel. But no one told the guy in the first place.

Quoting Sir2u
Human whack a mole, sounds interesting. But what or where is nothing?


I want a Zen master to give me the easy way out of life. If it takes a mallet, so be it.






Sir2u August 30, 2020 at 16:55 #447738
Quoting Nils Loc
You hit the camel's balls(?) between two bricks as it is drinking to turn a 7 day camel into a 10 day camel. But no one told the guy in the first place.


The funny part is when the guy asks if it hurts, and the herder says "only if you get your fingers between the bricks"

Quoting Nils Loc
I want a Zen master to give me the easy way out of life.


Confucius, or was it Murphy, said that there is no such thing as an easy way out of life. You just have to learn to go with the flow.