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October 06 Money isn't worth muchContinuous inflation makes nonsense when you tag it to the value of the money. When I was ten I would ride my bike to buy a gallon of milk at the corner store for a quarter and our house rent in Maywood was $35.00 a month. (The Depression was the good old days.) Now a quarter will get you a thimbleful of milk. How can that be? There's a lot of money floating around, but we are approaching the WWI German wheelbarrowful of Deutschmarks worth a loaf of bread. Our Perryville house only cost $10,500 in 1952 and now how much would it be? In Glen Ellyn, a contractor told me Thursday, they are building garages for $65,000. The only security is to keep breathing, Dr. Trowbridge once told me. He then died.. October 03 Alice in WonderlandWell let's see, if you have 48 chromosomes with 3 billion genes and 5,000 errors of metabolism, mostly without actual names, what do you think anybody knows about anything anyway? We've been separated from the apes for about minute of time, and had civilization only after the last ice age, and electricity only since my grandparents, were born, and you want perfection? Ha. The real miracle is the so called normal person, what with all the cosmic rays and neutrinos whomping through all your sperm and ova all the time. That's why religion. It's all unbelievable. Incredible. Impossible. I don't even believe any part of this fable. The only thing true was Santa because he came round every year. |
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