Most humans see their manner of thinking and their point of view as the base of normalcy. Slight deviations in others is allowed, but encountering lifeviews and opinions too much at odds creates an unwelcome dissonance resulting in disbelief or dismissal. The truth is that there is no one base of normalcy. Our personal perception of the world is just a drifting buoy on an undulating ocean amid multitudes.

Aesthetic preference can be simply the superficial manifestation of yearning to belong to a peer group. In this sense, it makes little sense to call said aesthetic preference "one's own".

Fashion is the imposition of the aesthetics of a figured few onto masses of sheep. It overrides and sometimes completely obliterates the personal aesthetic of an individual and even worse convinces the individual that the specific aesthetic was his or her choice. Abstracting the same idea leads one to the same conclusion about any marketed aesthetic preference. Music, film, stylistic goat worshipping forms, etc.

Sometimes we are all in danger of believing we are the only ones!q with rich inner lives.

Just because someone reaches a different conclusion than you or given the same stimuli or threads of thought chooses to act differently than you does not mean that that petson has not also explored just as many avenues of mental discovery, understanding, knowledge collection and empathy as you have.

The point is, when one is hopped up on the spritz, to slice the klobasy and not to slice oneself.

V tramvaji si přímemně vědomuju že masitý smrad který se line ve vzduchu není můj.

Why did Tony keep my discarded hair from brushing in a jar in his dorm room in College Station?

He's the kind of person who buys a pizza, rolls it up into a tube, and fucks it.

I learned today that a Swiss soldier gets a bar of chocolate for every Russian he kills.

The asssuming nature if the snobbish: Lenta asks me what time I usually get up. She answers 8 for me before I can say a word. It's a little after 7. I'm reminded of the maddening behavior of phychologists who despite all evidence to the contrary, insist they know you better than you know yourself.

An observation of a similarity between Switzerland and the States: The members of both granfalloons hang their flags proudly and everywhere.

I just had a sudden pining nostalgia of walking in Pagan Park and studying Czech. The mind is at times a horrific beast .

I think what Lee wanted to say when he told me that even mediocrity is an extreme is that actually all concepts are discreet points or levels on the quantum and are independent. Each can happen simultaneously, overlapping even within the same person.

One of the finest simple pleasures is freshly ground peppercorns.

Would you rather have friends or have people who agree with you? They aren't mutually exclusive, but many tend to collect the latter.

No Krugerrands for Klobasa-boy.

So my father has died. Life shall once again skew at an angle. The following weeks will be bizarre.

A tea - or should I say "infusion" - of dandelion, nettle, kelp and dulse.