{"id":93,"date":"2007-06-27T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2007-06-27T00:36:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T04:36:51","slug":"scary-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Is Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, before I let Mother Night<\/em> go back to the library, let me share my favorite passage. The main character pretends to be a Nazi and he plays the part perfectly. Too perfectly. He says this about himself:<\/p>\n

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself—will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows—some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history—<\/em><\/p>\n

But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, “This fact I can do without.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So he’s not crazy, he’s just a monster!<\/p>\n

This passage caught my attention because I understand the temptation to tamper with one’s thinking machine. There are some facts I could do without quite nicely, thank you, including almost everything I’ve ever heard about global warming, war, disease, death, and belly-button lint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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