Have you ever experienced a mental vergence? Where two things you thought were dissimilar all of a sudden came together into one? It is a disorienting experience, one that I think results in an actual change in brain chemistry, as neurons well-established and concrete that previously never associated all of a sudden have to get together in very in intimate terms, fused together forever after.
Like when Luke found out Vader was his father.
Just now I realized that the water park to which Napoleon Bonaparte goes in “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” is called “Waterloos.” This is an absolutely fabulous joke, one that would have enriched my life, and all along I missed it.
At least I learned it before I was too late.
Just as it takes some doing to fuse two well-known things together, breaking them up requires a similar effort.
How did it feel the last time you got dumped? Every time you think of the person, there is a fresh jab of mental anguish as the way you thought of them until quite recently buffets against the new way you still haven’t accepted. They are the dying throes of a mental network, now invalidated, but still not dissipated from the conscious mind.
2 comments:
This is like the time I went to my bishops house and discovered that he had 3 children that I never knew about...I felt betrayed and I refuse to acknowledge them.
Vader is Luke's father? Thanks a lot!
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