[Wonderful Labs] CHEAP WONDER

[Wonderful Labs]

Dear Mr. Wonderful,
 
	Do I want you because you are wonderful, or are you wonderful because I
want you?
 
Signed,
Rodgers & Hammerstein
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Dear Cinderella & Charybdis,

	Well, you know, as my old cradle rocker, Great-Aunt Edina Wonderful,
used to say: "Why bother arguing about chickens and eggs, darlin', so
long as someone's getting laid?"

	Of course, and yet, that is to say, Miss Yakamoto's silvery stiletto
heel pressed against the back of my neck just now does bring to mind the
issue of Priority.  Rather sharply.  So.

	People rarely want what is wonderful.  To be full of wonder is to be
full of mystery and mystery is all ambiguous and unable to give comfort.
 Mystery keeps pushing and prodding, opening doors and whisking through
rooms, generating energy through action, not insulation.  It rarely
provides rest, preferring instead the breathless gasp.  Mystery scares,
and thus wonder discomfits.  Mystery and wonder are open, unending
essays, not taut novels.  They jostle the mental faculties, and do not lull.

	However.  In the presence of Love, wonder increases.  Contemplate any
object with the lens of Love and you will find your wonder increasing,
zooming through levels of complexity and mystery and depths unplumbed,
like Mandelbrot descending upon an ever-expanding fractal snowman. 
Quotidian objects are rendered mundane by indifference, not by nature. 
*Everything* is accidental and marvelous, shocking and unexpected.  You
only have to care to see it.


	Anyway.  Point is.  Rodgers and Hammerstein sounds like my last party
in Berlin.  Maybe they just wanted to wrap their lips around my
vocabulary.  Wouldn't be the first time.



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WONDERFUL LABS -  New Ideas For New Times -  Like Shadows Cast By Fireworks
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Mister Wonderful Recommends:  Letting the future wash over you, all
frothy and joyful.

http://www.nypress.com/16/53/news&columns/zen.cfm
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cafescientifique/
http://www.impermanentpress.com/pages2/raw1x.html

-- 
Honey Why

	"Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and
	tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work
	unless you drink coffee.  Think of yourself as 
	incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever
	talked to be God and his messengers.  Remember how
	wonderful you are, what a miracle!"

		-Brenda Ueland, 
		"If You Want To Write"


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