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This should most definitely bust your

bubble.. or at least surround you in one.

(a few of you would remember this ball breaker)

If I told you that a man picks up a book

with an intention to read it.. and opens to

the first page only to find that its script has been removed.

Would you infer that the pages were torn out,

or that the words themselves were

removed from the page?

This in itself poses a threat to our conscious mind. Let's suggest, for the moment, that we made the conclusion of the missing pages.

Why would this person, with his sole intention on

reading a book, pick up this book which clearly

displays a lack of physical content; in this case,

its pages! Would you then extrapolate that

this person is suspicious?

Would you be determined to investigate further? Is this guy just passing time in the hopes that maybe.. just maybe, something exciting will present itself? Are we dealing with a split personality here? Is this person experiencing a dangerous dose of psychosis, why would he decide to read a book without pages?!

Let's take a minute and go back, say we suggest the missing words. We are now dealing with a normal (i.e. conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected) person who has selected a book that, itself is experiencing psychotic difficulties. We are now coping with a problematic book; a literary composition that is published or intended for publication as such a work that is contradicting itself. We have a book without words, without imagery, without any form of written symbol. A book that serves no purpose.

Either way you take this situation, it poses real problems for reality.

Unless of course, you register the fact that it's only the first page we spoke about in the very beginning. How are we able to make such an unsupported conclusion? ..without receiving any mention whatsoever to the content of the remainder of this book. So does this make us the ones with the psychotic issues, having been told that our book's first page is lacking in script and then further suggesting ourselves that all the pages are missing? Why didn't we just turn to the next page?

I put the issue to you, my friends. Is this a problem? Can we solve the page paradox, or have we already solved it?

Or is the problem that perhaps, with too much

available time on one's hands, one can

produce such pointless and irrelevant food for thought.

Manth