Monday, January 31, 2005
He said "I don't talk the way I think because I haven't ever heard noone say 'affeckshanahdo' aloud before"
It's not that you have this deep seated desire to keep things to yourself, it's not that you try to hide your intelligence for fear of reprisal. 'Soul of a poet trapped inside the body of the working class' that sort of bullshit just doesn't come into play. It's mostly that you never heard ethereal, afficionado, zeitgeist, paradigm, and matronym, when you were working on the car with your dad. You hear "sonofawhore" instead of somnambulist, "goddamned slut" instead of godroon, "fuckingjesusmaryandjoseph"l instead of well anything. You never were trying to hide your book learning.
A woman once spoke of her son with all the reverance she could muster, "He's not booksmart, he's peoplesmart, he's real streetsmart, he knows what's goin on, y'know? Not great at school, doesn't get the marks like his sister, but he understans people, he understans the way the world works."
You're not trying to hide your book learning, your school smarts, though one would assume (perhaps even correctly) that you'd be better off hiding it. You just don't have the words. You don't have the ability to form the words orally that are bandied about in your head.
Sometimes you think it's better to just shut the fuck up.
It's not that you have this deep seated desire to keep things to yourself, it's not that you try to hide your intelligence for fear of reprisal. 'Soul of a poet trapped inside the body of the working class' that sort of bullshit just doesn't come into play. It's mostly that you never heard ethereal, afficionado, zeitgeist, paradigm, and matronym, when you were working on the car with your dad. You hear "sonofawhore" instead of somnambulist, "goddamned slut" instead of godroon, "fuckingjesusmaryandjoseph"l instead of well anything. You never were trying to hide your book learning.
A woman once spoke of her son with all the reverance she could muster, "He's not booksmart, he's peoplesmart, he's real streetsmart, he knows what's goin on, y'know? Not great at school, doesn't get the marks like his sister, but he understans people, he understans the way the world works."
You're not trying to hide your book learning, your school smarts, though one would assume (perhaps even correctly) that you'd be better off hiding it. You just don't have the words. You don't have the ability to form the words orally that are bandied about in your head.
Sometimes you think it's better to just shut the fuck up.
# posted by Die Brucke @ 3:11 AM 
