The Composer
“Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.” —Douglas Coupland
The composer of godslaugh.me* writes like a half-wit in a think tank.
“Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit.” —Christian Nestell Bovee
He writes like a flaming stick of wax on a silvered pane of glass.
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” —Edith Wharton
Ed plays the fool for life’s defining metaphors—except those which make one think it is time that takes wing when they’re having fun.
“Time is making fools of us again.” —J. K. Rowling
Metaphorically speaking, he composes a true tall tale of infinite possibilities—boundless and timeless as an ageless mariner’s memoir-in-progress.
“Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.” —Don Miguel Ruiz
The boat he is in is propelled by irrational exuberance, so it only goes over the top of the world.
“True love stories never have endings.” —Richard Bach
And he only goes off the deep end for priceless treasure.
“Dive into a sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.” —Moses Ibn Ezra
To keep the craft on an even keel, the metaphors are anchored in reason, between the lines, by the thoughts of more-or-less rational minds.
“I have just got a new theory of eternity!” —Albert Einstein
For making eye contact with oneself, says one who risks playing its fool, the language of imagination is a godsend.
“The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.” —José Ortega y Gasset
As the compass of the whole nine yards and the stylus of all she wrote, metaphor charts the course of his voyage through time’s illusions…in the same boat with humanity’s top bananas.
“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” —Voltaire
*Ed Shapiro composes in the sense of one who arranges thoughts around a theme in a composition.
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