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--- the_you_you_are_book [2022-06-27 23:08] – RideWithMeTomorrow
+++ the_you_you_are_book [2022-07-28 04:37] – Scribe of Kier
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 >[The gift was not received well. The] mundane meal wheel keeps spinning, and when it stops, it [lands in this humble Italian farmhouse on the] all too familiar chicken. How to stop the meal wheel, give…typical cure for this monotony would be to add variety, but [it was verboten to add] another protein choice to the dining gauntlet per [Fabie’s parents. So I suggested we] subtract. Do you even need dinner? [We need food as fuel] to live - but should we [center] all social [intercourse around the consumption of food? That requires money, and in this world, to have money, one must have a job. And I did not have either of those things.]
+>A fuller reconstruction of the first chapter of [[The You You Are]] as excerpted in [[The Kier Chronicle]]:
+>(All typos as presented by the //Chronicle//.)
+>It's said that as a child, Wolfgang Mozart killed another boy by slamming his head in a piano. Don't worry. My reseaerch for this book has proven the claim untrue. As your heart rate settles, though, consider the power an author, which we'll refer to as "Me" can hold over a reader, heretofore called "You." But what, indeed, is "You?" What is the empirical definition of the word? How can "You" mean different things to millions of readers around a vast Earth? And, perhaps most importantly, how can we stop wars? To paraphrase the great Stephen Hawking, "It is better to think of the world in terms of mathematics than poetry, because publishers will often ignore great poems, but scientists are required by law to publish correct math problems."
+>As such, let's break down the lingustic term "YOU" in Dr. Hawking's preferred language: Mathematics. At its core, the word "YOU" is made up of 3 letters: Y, O, and U. I have no doubt my more astute readers have already noticed that the English pronunciation of the letter "U" (yoo) corresponds exactly to the original word: "You." What a funny and mad language we speak, in which "U" is part of "You," and yet also its own whole. Please take note of this fact, as it will be important in the following paragraph.
+>So let us remove "U" from "You," and see what happens. If we remove the letter, we are left with "Yo," a common greeting I myself sometimes employ after a glass or two of wine!
+>But switch the "Y" to an "I" (the two are interchangeable in linguistic circles) and you get "Io." Well, this is nonsense, yes?? It sounds like end of a children's song about a farm! I suppose you may as well return this book for a refund, as the experiment is clearly moot! Except; it is not.
+>Here it becomes necessary to reference my time abroad. As a young collegiate, I donated a semester of my studies to a cultural exploration of the nation of Italy, in hopes of healing the painful divides that had grown between the country and my own throughout the 1990's.
+>One of the most bizarre and fascinating things I learned about Italy during my time there was that they have not one, but two words for "Me." The first is "Me," which is identical to the english [sic] translation. The second, puzzlingly, is used when the speaker is referring to himself as the subject of the sentence: Io.
+>Consider for a moment--and please, don't forget to breathe--that according to Dr. Hawking's own laws of mathematical trueness, removing "U" from "You" creates "Io," which is translates to--"Me." Or, for the layman, "You" minus "You" is "Me."
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