So w/e

Whats the difference between repression and discipline? Is 'discipline' knowing what you are deciding not to express-- whereas 'repression' is when you never get a chance in the first place to properly acknowledge what you deny? Is there really any difference at all?

Between complacency and happiness?

ETC. (I assume but will not pursue. After all, I am no huntsman like some of out great authors. Only that tipsy girl at the other table who sometimes is serious and sometimes isn't.)

Noes and Yeses

I heard a great actor speak the other day. For years I've known his reputation but never personally encountered him except at a distance. Last night he was at rehearsal, and what I heard him say was only a sentence or two. He directed the two actors on stage go back to the section with "noes and yeses" and even the small way he said the two words "noes and yeses" I felt the tingle of huge meaning. Maybe it was a sacred reverence that I detected in his voice, a reverence for noes and yeses and all the different ways they meet each other and roll around. I was afraid of the history of noes and yeses then, just by his causual intonation. This was a wise and great actor.

Gotome 1

Once upon a time, there was a baby named Gotome. The child grew and came to know forms and letters, the names of the wildflowers, and the assemblage of numbers. One day, Gotome's friend, another youth from the town, asked her-- why are you called Gotome? But Gotome did not know why. So she went to her school teacher and asked him-- why am I called Gotome? But he did not know why and instead told her to ask her parents. So she went to her parents and asked them-- why am I called Gotome? But her parents did not know why and instead told her to ask her grandmother. So Gotome went to her wise grandmother and asked-- why am I called Gotome? But the wise grandmother could only say--

You must do as you are named. The rest I do not know.

So Gotome set and thought. How could she do as she was named?