"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
Ernest Hemingway
How true, why else would DAD and me be here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Was that the only way or was that his earnest writings? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Hemming is good as it �seems�.
At times I meditate on fools whether they are or whether they become.
I mean, do fools get fooled because they are, or are fools, fools because they get fooled?
On the other hand, I wonder if it is intelligent to get drunk or one must be intelligent firstly to have something to lose on getting drunk. If drunkenness is to lose rationality one must be rational to have what should be lost on getting drunk. The paradox here is that if one was really rational, would that one, step forward to get drunk?
I believe that those who get drunk are those who have not what need be lost and drunkenness make believe that they lost what they never had.
Hemingway may have meant for intelligence a sort of pretence in which a jester builds a ruse by pretending drunkenness. Such an act allows the jester to mingle with his fools, while drunkenness is one of his tools.
In that case the jester would prefer the fools that are rather than the fools that would be because he has no intention to rob them of being fools not, but to gain the merits of the fools out of which many wisdom may emerge.
Cheers.
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