on pondering

so i just found another cool blog at Book swept and the following quote showed up. it is from salinger's 9 stories that were published in the 1950s. yeah i thought he only wrote the catcher in the rye. i guess when he died last year the fact that he wrote short stories was too tedious to mention. at any rate here's the quote. what do you think?*

the fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.

 Now what do you think about the collective consciousness? i ask that because as soon as i read it i thought to myself  "well duh". then i realized that isn't exactly a duh kind of thing. that is a bit of genius insight. if it was a duh kind of thing we all would mention it in conversations on the subject. but I have always known that kind of thing since i was a kid. so salinger writes a bunch of shorts, a few phrases stick and pretty soon give or take 30 years everyone knows this so well we don't bother with attributes? i think that is probably how it happened. grampa liked salinger. i never read anything but parts of catcher for Mr. Trapp's class. so how would i know joy is a liquid?

and why do i believe that joy is a liquid?

because of how it feels when it envelopes you
because happiness can decay
joy is bliss
joy and bliss transcend location
                                     substance and form
                                                      events and occasions

happiness is an emotional carb
joy and bliss is manna





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*the shift button is not cooperating today. sorry for the weird typography