Splintered Blog 3: Hot takes and cold cuts
Reasoning doesn't have to be reasonable
8/16/20251 min read
The following observations may or may not be salient…
Did you ever eat a ham sandwich that wasn’t actually ham? You have my condolences.
Did you ever kick your shoes off and accidentally kick out a complete stranger’s teeth? That’s unfortunate!
Did you ever strap yourself to a leaking raft and realize that all your patches passed their expiration date? I’m sure it was bound to happen eventually.
Here’s a good one: did you ever order waffles without casually asking whether or not the batter came from somewhere other than a badly damaged box? Trust me, it happens more than you might think. (Sometimes almost consistently.)
Life is full of many trials!
To be sure, lunch meat is not water soluble.
Hot apple pie is only hot until it cools off.
Dungeons are all-encompassing, but only to an extent.
Viable options commonly lead to variable conclusions.
Winding roads often find themselves veering off the straight and narrow, yet are unable to make any direct headway.
None of these things is in dispute!
If asked to clarify myself I would offer some advice as a kind of consolation prize. Pressed against it I might also feel confined and just as likely to depart as disperse. Which only goes to show that owning anything of consequence could be just as unwieldy as the alternative. And what, you may wonder, is that? In short: a separate option. Every single element, when brought to bare, can hardly have as much impact as something other than the only clothes that matter. No one worthwhile pursuit is ever as sensible as the loss of symptoms thought to be innate when all their attributes point to something contradictory.
I regret having to be the bearer of such close-knit disparities! My advice: to only handle ham that has its other options invalidated. And check the sidelines often, just in case the central message goes astray.
You’ll thank me later.