Saturday, July 5, 2014

Congratulations Singular Second Person Pronoun!



Today you are you.  You are an object, most likely, sometimes a subject, but always a noun, constantly subject to the whims of verbs, modifying nouns, and adjectival phrases.  You may exist in a state of flux, you may exist in a state of stasis.  You may be on a beach, or sitting on the porch of a house, or smoking on a fire escape, or sipping a cup of coffee, or watching TV.  You may be doing any number of things, because as a second person pronoun, you are capable of a variety of engaging and rewarding activities.

Perhaps you will write a book today using a pen that allows small amounts of ink to escape when you apply pressure to a surface and paper specially treated to better accept the stain of ink, without permitting said ink stain to fade.  Perhaps you will listen to an album printed on a laminate plastic scorched with a laser so that the light reflected by the disk when it spins just so is interpreted as sound by a machine.  Perhaps you will be caught in a time warp and left forever shifting between potential futures and impossible pasts.  Perhaps you will eat some non-dairy ice cream in a Colonial era fort.

There is no limit to the number of things you might accomplish today, and there will continue to be no limit to the number of things you might accomplish today until the day ends, at which point the number of things you might accomplish will be set.  You, infinitely mutable within the space of today, will be relegated to a relatively conservative range of potential achievements at day's end, which will remain more or less the case until the end of time, that is to say the end of your time.  On future days, as on most days, there will be little room for possible action, not because of any particularly adverse conditions, but because of a terrible, horrendous capacity for habit that most people cling to in their daily lives, a force of existential gravity which will, for today only, be tremendously reduced.

So today, we recommend that you take advantage of habit's weakened shackles and do everything you can to explore the wealth of possibilities in your life.  Take a chance.  Wear a fun hat.  Take a pottery class.  Ask someone to sleep with you who doesn't normally sleep with you.  Or do something completely different, something we haven't thought of here, something we couldn't think of here because you aren't going to do it yet, and we can only report on things you will do in the future, not all of the things you can do in the future, of which there are so many it would be literally impossible to record all of them, even if one were to try to do so for more than half a decade.

Congratulations Singular Second Person Pronoun!

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