1.07.2005
Dissonance
Dissonance \'di-s&-n&n(t)s\, noun: a mingling of discordant sounds; especially: a clashing or unresolved musical interval or chord. (Merriam-Webster)
I'm trying to do too many different things right now, read too many things, write too many things, listen to too many things... and it's creating a deafening dissonance in my brain. My thoughts are fractured; ideas through a shattered looking glass. How do I coax the cacophony into a melody. Or, better yet, silence? My kingdom for a quiet mind.
Kingdom? Queendom? Which puts me in mind of a passage in Richard Lederer's book Crazy English:
"Why is it that a woman can man a station but a man can't woman one, that a man can father a movement but a woman can't mother one, and that a king rules a kingdom but a queen doesn't rule a queendom? How did all those Renaissance men reproduce when there don't seem to have been any Renaissance women?"
But I digress... (and what else is new these days?)
I'm trying to do too many different things right now, read too many things, write too many things, listen to too many things... and it's creating a deafening dissonance in my brain. My thoughts are fractured; ideas through a shattered looking glass. How do I coax the cacophony into a melody. Or, better yet, silence? My kingdom for a quiet mind.
Kingdom? Queendom? Which puts me in mind of a passage in Richard Lederer's book Crazy English:
"Why is it that a woman can man a station but a man can't woman one, that a man can father a movement but a woman can't mother one, and that a king rules a kingdom but a queen doesn't rule a queendom? How did all those Renaissance men reproduce when there don't seem to have been any Renaissance women?"
But I digress... (and what else is new these days?)
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