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""Story 4: The Lightning-Rod Man" This parable felt like the best dinner-party andecote you'd leave the evening with, and that's a high compliment. Some truly funny bits, like how the flim-flam man avoided lightning in neurotic and absurd ways ("I avoid pine-trees, high houses, lonely barns, upland pastures, running water, flocks of cattle and sheep, a crowd of men...but of all things, I avoid tall men."" — Jul 28, 2026 10:53AM
""Story 4: The Lightning-Rod Man" This parable felt like the best dinner-party andecote you'd leave the evening with, and that's a high compliment. Some truly funny bits, like how the flim-flam man avoided lightning in neurotic and absurd ways ("I avoid pine-trees, high houses, lonely barns, upland pastures, running water, flocks of cattle and sheep, a crowd of men...but of all things, I avoid tall men."" — Jul 28, 2026 10:53AM
“She is an idiot Ecclesiastes," I said to myself. And in this phrase, my two visions of her—as idiot and as symbolist—met, collided and fused.”
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Hallucinations / Awakenings
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Hallucinations / Awakenings
“I'm like a sort of living carpet. I need a pattern, a design, like you have on that carpet. I come apart, I unravel, unless there's a design." I looked down at the carpet, as Rebecca said this, and found myself thinking of Sherrington's famous image, comparing the brain/mind to an 'enchanted loom', weaving patterns ever-dissolving, but always with meaning. I thought: can one have a raw carpet without a design?”
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