46. woman is a yam – o’hair - Sick Sacraments
46. woman is a yam – o’hair One basic human element that Aristotle forgot to mention, and what is missing in most of western philosophy, is the need for a pause. One needs to take a pause in order to live in the present. Many are just too busy to stop for a second. Everyone needs a pause because sometimes stories go on too long, especially when there is a lot of action or lots of chapters. The reader might stumble on this chapter while in bed, standing in the kitchen, sitting on the toilet or travelling somewhere on a bus, train or plane. The reader looks up from the page and during this pause winds up staring out the window, at the sink, at the wallpaper or at the back of someone’s head. Without thinking the reader is taking a pause. There is only one kind of pause. Pauses are not the replacement of one physical action with another, as in assembly-line work and the fifteen-minute break. A real pause is ...