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Life. We don't talk about it much but everyone knows it is there.
Lurking. A shadowy figure that infiltrates every fiber of our being.
But what do we really know about it?
This is the subject matter of Dalek Bell's greatest novel,
"The Noodle that Knew Remorse." In this epic, Bell uses the
metaphor of a thousand rampaging elephants for life.
Frightening.
Massively powerful. Perhaps not particularly
rational. Something that is liable to pound you into the ground
and squish you flat if you stand around analyzing it too long.
This contrasts strikingly with Bell's metaphor for love, which is
a thousand rampaging penguins. His thought processes in this
instance are rather trickier to fathom. Perhaps he has a
fondness for rampaging penguins, and who could blame him.
Certainly, a horde of rampaging penguins unleashed on a major
city can be, like love, all-consuming.
But back to our analysis of life, and the dangers of carrying
that analysis on too long. This is an important point, so
we will consider it in depth.
The author of the above article expresses his regrets, but
due to being inadvertantly squished he is currently all width and has
no depth left to consider.
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