Artificial Intelligence

There are two types of people…those that divide

people into two types, and those that don’t….he’d

written about that once before.

He had been an actor, became a writer because

acting took lots of other people, and he didn’t know

when, if ever, he’d be around them anymore.

Acting was an amazing endeavor. He thought

Buddhists would benefit from doing it because, if

you were in character, there was no room for ego.

Acting could be dangerous. He had two examples.

Alfred Jarry was a playwright at the end of the

Twentieth Century in France. He wrote “Ubu Roi”,

a play about a king. That king was disgusting…

always spewing dirty language, filth, aside from

his bad behavior. Jarry began to dress like that 

character, and wandered around Paris spewing

filth, and generally being Pere Ubu. Freud coined 

the term: “Jarry complex” to describe his obsession.

Ubu became Jarry’s ego. The other example is

George C. Scott, who won an academy award for

his role in the movie, “Patton”. George had a 

nervous breakdown. He couldn’t stop being Patton.

“Hang on to your ego, but I know you’re going to

lose the fight.”

He wrote things, even a few lyrics, but he wasn’t 

a musician. He had two examples of people whose

music had gotten them out of prison: Leadbelly and

Handel. He didn’t see how his writing could get him

out of the prison he was in. He knew death would 

solve that problem, so he wasn’t really worried. It 

was interesting, however, to consider the possibility.

He was living in an ancient caldera in a town

considered to be a place that was one of the oldest 

continuously inhabited spots in the Western 

Hemisphere. That was good enough for him.

He knew that going somewhere else could only,

at best, be redundant. What do you do when you

find your spot? You stay there. It had worked for him.

Besides these thoughts, it was just another day. Today

felt a bit better because the moon was moving from 

Cancer to Leo, or some other reason. It made sense

to him, even if he really didn’t understand.