Tuesday, July 19, 2011

When I was a kid.

I used to be smart.  I got to go to college free by betting someone, when I was 14, that Bobby Fischer couldn't beat me at chess.  The match was at UT/Austin and he didn't beat me.  I didn't beat him either, or course - but I tied him.  That won the bet. I phrased the bet that way purposefully.

Sometimes I still flatter myself that I can see things other people can't - or don't - or won't.  I'm not smart anymore, but I still think differently than everyone else.  Maybe that's good - maybe it isn't.  But it's my gift - or my burden - and I live with it.  Preferable in a condition of hermitage. 

I don't care what anyone else does, or collects, or believes - and I don't care whether anyone else cares what I think, or why.  My explanations are insufficient for all but a few thousand inhabitants of the planet in any case.

If you don't like what I write, don't read it.  I cannot explain lateral leaps. 

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