JUNG
THANK GOD I’M JUNG AND NOT A JUNGIAN
This week the light went ON at the end of the tunnel
Whereas in my last book it went OUT * (pg.82)
On Saturday I told a young doctor that I was at 1 on
the Pessimism for Humanity Scale until about 7 yrs.
ago when miraculously I jumped to a 6 My husband
swooped in with a scaling question He said: So what
would it take to get you to 8?
Peace on Earth the arrival of the Messiah (2nd coming for some)
& throttling the diner at the adjacent table (too funny wise +interesting)
Truthfully the light began to flicker then & as I flung the cold carpaccio
in his face I shouted:
You have a shittylittlemind + a goddamned honking laugh
+ the scent about you is Bottom the Ass Fie Fie boring hipster
at Terroni
With this the young doctor & his ethicist lover wondered about my paradigm
Well I’m: an angst-ridden Jew from the Pale a Jungian + a witch and if
carpaccio-face doesn’t shut his trap I will no longer be a pacifist Not to put
too fine a point on it
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind
the lawyer all the wickedness
the theologian all the stupidity
Arthur Schopenhauer
Summer 2014
