If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
Plato said: ‘He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.’
If you tell folks you're a model, they shut down. Your being a model will mean they're networking with some lower life form. They start using baby talk. They dumb down. But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
Who knows where an idea comes from. Our inspiration. Why do we imagine what we imagine.
That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.
This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate.
I tell them, heap it on me. Make me play the big passive bottom in your guilt gang bang. I'll take everybody's load.
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