Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Other's Sense of Self

While the Other may claim that I need to give up my silly plans, I beg to differ. I believe the other needs to stop residing in her alterity and find some sense of self. First of all, who does the Other think she is citing Wikipedia. The Other should know that after graduating from the University Honors Program, Wikipedia is not a valid source for information. If the Wikipedia entry was correct, it would have noted that the Narcissus flower was actually named for a deified academic who won the hearts of several rich scholarship granting institutions and then saved the world by opening a chain of strategically socially-just honestly organic slow food restaurants. Moreover,  the Other is fundamentally not allowed to cite Wikipedia, for that is clearly a characteristic that is distinct to the Fire Headed German. Who does she think she is--citing wikipedia. I am disappointed. She should have cited JSTOR (which would have provided her with the proper information) and used proper Turabian style such that the readers could not be deceived by her sophistry.

The Other clearly needs to stop trying to be be other people and define who the other is. Maybe her trip to Prague will provide her with the necessary life experience for her to understand her own essence as a unique Dasein. Yet I predict that this may not be this case. Because of her own stubborn resistance to carnivorism and her stubborn adherence to a quasi-vegetarian lifestyle, I believe that she will return from prague physically and emotionally -bruised. 

The other must understand that her anemia is part of her essence and she must feed her lacks with that which they desire. Despite this, she will enter prague with a hatred of sausage--an art which uniquely defines the Czechs (Unique definition being the Other's critical point of concern), and live on a diet of Beer and Vegetables.

The thought of such a diet disgusts me. One might as well pour Guinness on Lucky Charms. Though she might want to avoid such an action, for that might cause her to compete with the Fireheaded Headed Celt--who is probably pouring Guinness over her lucky charms right now. Only she, the Celt, could read blogs while drunk, eat breakfast drunk, and the proceed throughout the day in a slightly irish Guinness colored haze. I suspect this is why all the Celt's clothes are some combination of slightly off-green and slightly off-brown and slightly off-green-brown. 

One must also not forget that the Celt at the beginning of the honors program did mark the Other as her competition. The Celt ignored the Strawberry Blonde Nun, the Fireheaded German, the Oregonian Athiest, The Disney Nut, The Yakima Apple Blossom Princess, The Orphinite, The Girl who was born with no heals, the girl who Yogas her legs into a knots in class, the Blob Poetess, the President of the Dante Fan club, the "Straight" boy who wiggles his hips, the coloradan philosopher,  the Power Business Woman, The Business Bro, the Virginian English Teacher, the Viking, Narcissus, the Secretarial Montanan, The Voice of God, the Hawaiian feminist, and the tall girl who bakes and can do math  to mark the Other as her competition. Clearly, despite her drunken haze, the Celt realized the Other's potential to leech uniqueness from the Celt.

Yet we must remember, that the Fireheaded Celt's drunken haze and off colors are what make her unique, something that the Other has problems encountering because of her remarkably annoying concern for alterity. 

To solve the Other's problems, I reccomend that she eat and swallow one sausage a day.

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