Latest fortune cookie reading:

You have a friendly heart and are well admired.

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Assuming you're not already, would you become a vegetarian if it were suddenly discovered that cows, pigs, chickens, goats, etc. could talk and, moreover, are capable of highly intelligent thought? And do you think that most people would make significant changes to their eating habits?

Just wondering!

"When dealing with other people, one should temper everything one says and does so as not to risk making them even the slightest bit angry -- because if one does, those others may be moved to retaliate by contacting the authorities and tell unbelievably vicious lies in order to ruin one's life and damage one's reputation beyond repair."

This is not a belief that anyone should hold, nor should an individual's experiences consistently force this thought into one's consciousness. Yet because I have been blamed for every instance in which I have been made to suffer these attacks, it is a code by which I am obviously expected to live.

And the very same people who condemn me criticize me for being "antisocial" -- as if, knowing what I know and having experienced what I have experienced -- entering into healthy relationships with other people is even a remote possibility.

This is a really great movie. And I'm not just saying that because one of the characters is a singer who performs in a blue wig.

Doesn't hurt, though. Please take me with you, Debbie. 🙁

And what is it about talent that makes people so unbelievably attractive? I actually cried during Marva's song and the scene that precedes it. Beautiful. This was one of those movies that makes one want to track down other films (and television shows) starring the cast members -- Thekla Reuten and Eva van der Gucht in particular. Unfortunately, the vast majority of their work hasn't been released on video. 🙁

And with that frown, we return to my regularly scheduled misery.

So there's much more to be said about the incidents of last week -- and I want to say it, even though the people who should hear it most appear to be utterly incapable of comprehension. But that'll have to wait. In the meantime, though, here are a few lines from a poem/song I intend to write.

His suffering brought them no salvation
on the contrary, it brought them joy
for man's heart delights in the torment
of a sad little boy

I think it would be neat to be a songwriter.