[SEL] Are we all insane??

[WinkAndGinger at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/25/2005 9:19:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
rskinner at rustyiron.com writes:


> 
> Yes Jerry,
> We are conquistadors of the useless, compulsive addicts of the absurd.
> 
> With engines, there is the expenditure of precious time, marital harmony,
> financial stability,  set against the transitory pleasure of the reanimation 
> of
> a useless object, the thrill of the first "chuff," the fleeting satiation of 
> an
> irrational desire. The fact that there will always be a bigger or rarer 
> engine
> guarantees the desire can never be fully gratified.  This is the addiction.
> Perhaps the desire is deeply rooted in the very absurdity of the 
> undertaking. It
> is so wonderfully pointless and meaningless that it has to be done.
> 
> Rob "Don't Call Me Simpson" Skinner
> 

Yup!    I know I fit the discription, 'cause I understood what Rob was 
saying!

Wink & Ginger Thornton, 
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