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“They asked me once my thoughts on infinity and I told ‘em
with all I had to think about, infinity was not on my list
of things to think about. It could be time on an ego trip,
for all I know. They said infinity is
time-released time.

Frankly, infinity doesn’t affect
me personally one way or the other.
You think too long about infinity, you could go
stark raving mad.

But I don’t ever want to sound negative about going crazy.
I don’t want to overromanticize it either, but frankly,
goin’ crazy was the best thing ever happened to me.
I don’t say it’s for everybody;
some people couldn’t cope.
But for me it came at a time when nothing else seemed to be
working.

I got the kind of madness Socrates talked about,
“A divine release of the soul from the yoke of
custom and convention.”

I refuse to be intimidated by
reality anymore.
After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin’ but a
collective hunch.

My space chums think reality was once a
primitive method of
crowd control that got out of hand.
In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up
in a three-piece business suit.

I made some studies, and
reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in
touch with it.

I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle
I found it too confining.
It was just too needful;
it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all
I have to do, I had to let something go.

Now, since I put reality on a back burner, my days are
jam-packed and fun-filled.”