Saturday, 3 March 2012

Twenty-two (22)

You want to dance, but the quicker you choose to dance with someone the less likely you'll make an informed decision about whether their music will mesh with your music.  And with the music.

You want to sit, but to sit means to reject invitations from the people you want to dance with.  To sit briefly risks sitting perpetually.

You want to impress the person you're dancing with.  But the stronger that desire, the less free and natural is your dance.  Limbs stiffen up and movements start to jerk or stutter, or your lead becomes a murmer or a mutter.

Some days, you just can't win.

One definition of Catch-22:
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he were sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

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