1.8.2001

Happy Fool's Day tomorrow to one and all....

laugh on the subway out loud. find a swingset and pretend you're superman. find your sweet surrender. abandon yourself to foundless hope. spill your secrets, samba in the streets, beat your chests and bellow. kiss somebody - and then take it back. make a sighing mockery of moroseness. mock severity, authority, convention, complacency and common sense. sing for no reason but that you can (especially if you can't). take a nap in the middle of the day. declare it's sunny in the middle of your snowstorms or snowy in the middle of your sun ("I say it is the sun...."). wear comfortable shoes - but tie jingle bells to the laces. change fonts frequently. speak in rhymes, riddles or romantic verse. alliterate freely. lounge languidly. breathe whole and strong and light and loud and live hard.

And spare a thought for me, you silly Fools.

Some food for folly...

"To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling."
--Anonymous

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "
--Douglas Adams

"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends call it."
-- Edgar Allan Poe

"The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right."
-- Mark Twain

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
-- Euripides

"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. "
--John Dryden

"Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish. "
--Albert Einstein

"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. "
--Elizabeth Gaskell

"One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour. "
--Nikolai Lenin

"Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people. "
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
--Winston Churchill

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. "
--William Blake

WebMo note: This was of course supposed to have been posted on Friday, but my connection failed. Joy Bliss!
posted by The Mo of Space and Death 07:19 (her time) @

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