From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>>A man hates his job.
>>
>>One day he comes home and begins to drink...
>>
>>He drinks till he passes out.
>>
>>He gets up in the middle of the night, and goes to the bathroom.
>>Then he turns out the light, and goes back to bed.
>>
>>When he wakes up in the morning, he looks out his window and
>>see's hundreds of people laying there dead.
>
>>The man kills himself.
>
>>Q. What did the man do for a living?
>I have not heard this one. But, here are some guesses.
>He's a lighthouse operator and the "light" is the lighthouse.
Correct.
>(The hard part is not getting the first possible explanation which
>the story was probably tailored for. The hard part is inventing
>multiple explanations so that some are even beyond the
>expectations of the storyteller!)
Nicely done.
I recently returned to doing zazen, which is probably why this came
up, these things remind me of Zen koans.
Brian
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