"Say lahh vee," my husband likes to say. And indeed, that is life. What is known as a truism or given, and might more precisely be called a tautology, or, my favorite, a worthlessly complete truth. Anyhow, whatever you say or feel about it, así es la vida.
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If I say "that's how life is," how can I be lying? If I am saying it right after someone says something that is not true about life. And yet, whether I acknowledge it or not, even whether I know it or not, I am still telling the truth. That is how durable, and pointless, the truth-power of the tautology is. All lies become true. Every absurdity in the universe thoroughly commonplace--to be expected as a matter of course as soon as it happens and perhaps beforehand, no matter the content or context. Such is the perfect suspension of disbelief at the heart of the universe as it watches itself unfold.
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What the fuck? lmao
--JL
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