i don't have the patience to gamble... i couldn't sit there and tempt fate... or predestination - make a joke from karma - but i'll somtimes make a quid's buckle worth better spent nonetheless spent on a bet... i heard this metaphor before... but apparently it's new... the bet? well... either the home team wins... or the away team wins... but both teams need to score... it's a quid... i had the most joy finding a 20 quid banknote on the pavement once... that too was a "bet" regarding where and at what speed i was walking... i don't gamble... i don't gamble on horses... i don't gamble on dogs... the odds are... as always the same plateau of odds... a bit like attempting to catch a mosquito by the testicles wearing boxing gloves... elephant memory: i know these words are not mine... but... for the time being: they must be mine... i don't gamble because i don't like to make a summary of karma: this cosmic wind of causality as merely: best be entertained by a gamble... i don't gamble because... i could never make it into a habit... i could never attempt to find a needle in a haystack... sooner i'd be willing to catch a breath of the wind while running naked with a flute to hear the flute resound with my breath being missing... eh... forget the flute... running naked with a half-empty bottle of cider... at the right angle... i'll catch the wind playing its first musical instrument! why didn't i find fun in driving a car? i would prefer a bicycle - and a horse - i never found fun in gambling... flipping a coin and calling: heads or tails was always more fun... i never liked chess - i never warmed up to it... draughts... sudoku... backgammon and mahjong... poker... a game of chess is hardly intuitive... it's not: heir-sein... it's such a detached monstrosity of... labyrinths... you can't make a mistake in the present - and in the same present correct it - since there's the narrative - the cascade - i'd sooner be bound to reading a book... i don't own a car... because i don't mind taking the bus... although i'd settle for a bicycle and i'll still dream about a horse... gambling... to have to devaule cosmic concepts akin to karma - no grand yawn from the depths on my behalf... this same old same old: same mediocre... middleground, haystack claimed this body beyond any to come anticipations from Everest... this life that eventually has to become an introspection... and that's of course - minus what's sacrificed on the altar of collective memory - the other's whim of memory - down the line... when only introspection matters... and no one is really invited... how sad it must be... to have attempted certain feats in this life... for... a yawn from the mountain and a transient ref. point of some other minding his journalistic integrity of: duly noted? it's not so much a "vanity project" critique... but... i try to perfect the most basic tasks... like rolling tobacco while walking... something i can retain and invite myself back into: from the devoid of self external world... to have ambitions akin to: climbing a mountain... and what if that doesn't attract journalistic voyeurism? what then? apparently after the feat... humanity as the mountain yawns or simply ignores... gambling... what is it, that's ncessarily "won"? when all that's won... has to be... gifted upon death's altar... beauty, wisdom... everything - imagine if death was corrupt... and somehow allowed transactions of future investements - akin to: beside the two coins for charon - a mummified body to add grit and wager! death at a turkish bazar! gamble or haggle - beside: do we really need an opera house... for someone to sing an aria? i'm very much worried about: investing in something - while at the same time - finding to self-gratification in due process - having to linger for third-party journalistic leeches to make due summaries... in the end... i don't really gamble... 1 quid a week... on the already stated chances: a bit like attempting to catch a mosquito by the testicles wearing boxing gloves... a world-wide renowed d.j. will earn about 100,000 million a year... i like being my own d.j. - a tennis player will earn... this much... but a ping-pong player... will only be seen at the olympics... tennis: a game of 7 rectangles and... 11 judges (enough for a football team) and... 6 ball boys / girls... and why would i even want more money? spend it on what? i'll buy a pair of shoes when the shoes i'm wearing will start to wear down... it seems that after a long enough time - you: neither forget - nor unlearn the basic propensity for spending money - earning it very vague - spending it is even more vague - luxury items become: tacky - there's a reason why champagne is champagne - once tried: forever abhorred... in terms of meat: it's not what meat it is... it's how you cook it... no good butchering an argentinian cut of steak if you'll make: roast beef from it! then again: i never liked spending money... and... i never managed to acquire the companionship of the opposite *** that would otherwise spend it for me... oops? i don't like restaurants because: i much prefer to see myself wash my hands before i start to prepare a meal... on the topic of clothes... i sometimes look at my cats... the same furr - day in - day out - why would i dress for a season - marry myself to trends? that doesn't invite the accusation that i do not wash myself - or that i do not wash or iron my clothes - why... bother fashion that's on a bigger whim than the ******* weather?! lately the price of books have gone up... here's to me not buying a book - vinyls... jazz vinyls are low... 10 quid a liquorice spin... but this is nothing that could ever become consolidated into a home - but then i'm... too much into my routines... and: i couldn't ever wish or want... to keep up with keeping up appearances... this apathy doesn't stem from a nihilism... it stems from a depressive lethargy... depressive lethargy is depression - when it's not elevated to the romance of melancholy... and "oh i'm sad"... oh oh... no... i'm just tired of seeing the usual suspects of keeping a life make-belief succint informal casual convo. in a fish & chip shop *******' worth of antics! i can be polite to doctors... oh hell: i'll charm them... they know the diagnosis... but i'll be ultra polite... because... i'm the one who will think about biological cancer as botanical cancer: mistletow... which it is... if you have ever seen it in the wild... i need a woman like i need an ulcer... esp. the sort of woman that's a tapeworm of transcendental a priori - something that i'm "given" without prior experience... perhaps for men all women are: a priori specimen... and for women... oh my god... there's no a priori man... there are only a posteriori... without the ability to cut off a piece of time and themselves included in it from the grand wheel of fortune and what's to come: died within a year... 2 weeks after the death she shedded her widowhood and became impregnated by an already engaged man: or some other wild old tale... in bad, light? oh... the time i realised that going to a brothel... was not as rewarding as going to a turkish barber shop? that time... well... that moment is still alive with me... i stopped going to a brothel after i discovered the joys of... having ones hair cut and one's beard trimmed... is probably better than ***... certainly better than *******... as i always try to remind the 3rd party sources of the moral highground argument... believe me when i say that i don't mind the dodo project - the cul de sac antics... i'll the complete man - although incomplete - as i will not be a father, nor a grandfather... hell.. my grandfather is ******* at me that he didn't become a great-grandfather! in terms of biological timing: he should have become a great-grandfather! does that make me any less or a lesser man when: as a mortal man: i am to be wed to - bride death?