THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
VINNIE
Harry mentions something strange
Chapter 70
But probably not all the followers felt bad about it afterwards,
2Although some of them did,
3Because some of them really did kind of like Harry,
4gAnd thought that maybe they had let him down or something,
5Until they remembered some things Harry had said on the Learjet one night,
6During a weekend away from Philadelphia,
7On the way to Harry’s place in Malibu.
8It was while they were flying along at thirty-some thousand feet that Harry said, No one has ever really asked me how you’re supposed to live without thinking about anything at all;
9Does that strike any of you as strange?
10Then one of the followers said, yes, it did seem strange now that Harry had mentioned it,
11And funny he hadn’t thought of it before himself.
12Thereupon Harry poured himself another three fingers of hJack Daniel’s,
13And began to talk, saying,
14I know that it seems like a iparadox,
15But it is much jsimpler than a paradox,
16Like most things.
17kTruly, people will never think that they have stopped thinking,
18lBecause how can you see the darkness by shining a light on darkness?
19In truth, they will stop thinking without ever knowing that they have done so,
20And they will be better off.
21mAnd from their point of view, they will think that they are thinking,
22And they will volunteer the nopinions they have arrived at from their thinking,
23And when people nod in agreement, they will say, “What a good thinker am I, that so many people nod in agreement with me,”
24oAnd they will never think about how they nod in unthinking agreement with the opinions expressed by other people,
25pWho also think they are thinking,
26And everybody will be better off.
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