Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:45:29 EST From: fred hedgehog Subject: [Malks] the mirror I don't know if anyone has put forward this theory about our luverly cracked mirror, but this is my take on things. What if the mirror isn't cracked? what if reality isn't cracked? what if its the eye perceiving the mirror thats cracked? There is a reason for the mal in malkavian. It means bad, fucked up. This would, of course, mean that our perception of the clan maklavian being the most aware, our perception of learning through madness, is completely flawed. But isn't that what we want? There is no such thing as your reality and my reality, there's just reality, and that's it. There's whats real and what's not real, and anyone who says something thats not real is real is just plain wrong... or crazy. In an essay erehwon wrote a loooong time ago called "Why I am crazy" (I think) he used the example of a baseball player sliding into home plate. One fan says he made it, another says he's out, and both of them thinkthe other one is crazy. The fact of the matter is that the player was either in or out, and one of the fans was wrong. So we see things wrong, it doesn't matter, as long as we don't mind, there's no harm done. But it might do good to acknowledge that in fact reality is reality, and anything else isjust plain crazy. -Fred Lesson for today- the spanish word for self-abuse is the same as the word for masturbation.