Re: Jumping in
craig king (ck31@ukc.ac.uk)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:52:05 +0100
----- Original Message -----
From: Wes Temby <tembywd@student.adams.edu>
To: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Jumping in
> Intelligence alienates. That's almost a given. Think about it, if you're
> more intelligent than the average person, how can you be comsidered able
to
> fit in with them just as well as one of them? I don't mean to look down my
> nose or anything, the math just speaks for itself really. (I'm not really
a
> math wizard either)
>
zooey's 'treasure'. stocking up your thoughts, building up one dignified,
shining suit of armour? it may alienate at first but i would say at the very
beginning, when you may start thinking different thoughts to others, or
rather have a tangible sense of this difference. after that you find others,
similarly-minded, and that alienation becomes just another part of the
incessant change that makes it all interesting anyway? and i don't think
intelligence alienates, for most people. i think someone with a too apparent
self-sense of their own intelligence alienates. i mean no-one likes a
smart-arse. which is probably why i was such an obnoxious little bugger when
i was sixteen :-)
so here's to that fat, black bird i just saw sploshing around in a puddle
and tweetling at the sparrows to find their own damn water . . .
ta ta,
craig