On Illusion and Delusion
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
-- Irish dramatist, novelist, and
poet Oscar Wilde(1854 - 1900)
I think "delusion" must be right close in there, don't you think?
Wow, I just remembered my friend Teacup was quite stunned by a phrase he once heard tumble out of my mouth.
"Delusionism- it's a real nice way to make life go okay!"
I think I must somehow operate with gobs of delusion and illusion in my personal life ("My new boss loves me. He'd be so upset if I don't accept the position." ) For another example, see Butterscotch Souffle
my other blog where I post luscious pictures of, say, movie stars, birds of paradise and cupcakes. You might not even believe it comes from the same writer as TS, but it does! Apparently I seek out the bitter and the sweet.) Perhaps there is some equation whereby I subsist on so much delusion in my personal life that I don't much need it in the global, ultimate sense. Which might have to do with how I can obsess on the heaving, tragic topics I do, yet still be a happy little monkey.
I wrote another post a while back about this very topic of delusion and our regard for our position in the world- much better and more fleshed out than this one... It's entitled Fat, Dumb and Happy, Who Me?"
posted by Lizzie @ 9:07 PM
4 Comments:
You merely imagine yourself more delusional than the rest of us. Snap out of it!
Hey-why should I? it's prettyy fuuunn....
i don't know if i'd say your little saying (and i have to correct you here baby, as what you actually said was so totally charming - "delusionalism - it's a real nice way to make your life go ok!" - it scans, it rhymes, it rings with bright, innocent monkey enthusiasm) was alien to my way of going about things; i mean, i'm in a cloud of subjective derangement for pretty much all of the time. i just don't see it making my life go ok :) but it made an impression because it was just such a great sentence: i loved the spontaneous neologism, and the contrast of it's sort of fudged loftiness against the down-home glee of the little rhyme that followed it - like a school project to come up with an advertising jingle for an abstract philosophical concept! did i laugh through my nose? it was good enough that i might have. and i mean, you just spat it out right there on the spot! it's a wonderful thing to be able to witness the mysteries of lizzie's brain manifesting themselves in the world (and asking for a cookie.)
Hi Teacup, that's a really sweet comment and I have corrected my entry!
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