every day I write the book

Last month, I started carrying around a little cheap notebook wherever I go, including more than a few nights of going out drinking. This has met the qualifications of being labeled "a fucking great idea". Here's a few highlights, most of which I don't actually remember writing:

• we need to bring back mercantilism
• "...but the Greeks were all gay!" "That's still not what Platonic means!"
• note to self: Dayquil + Pitcher = semi-hallucinations and deja-vu
• if my life ends up like Harry Chapin's "Taxi" I will be incredibly pissed
• Riff - marry a woman named Peggy with fat ankles
• Perfection is not only overrated but necessarily impossible. Remember that 0.999... = 1

And then there's this one, which I wrote after I woke up in the middle of the night last week.

Man is half divine and half material, half god and half animal. Our heads are in the clouds even while our feet are in the dirt. We look out on our world and imagine it as it is not, and more often than not can remake our surroundings to fit this image. We can exercise our will on nature, but remain perpetually subject to it. God said "let there be light". Edison ran electricity through tungsten.

I really have no idea what is going on in my head most of the time.