Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 02-08-19 06:14 <=-

Indeed. Envy is too strong a word for it, but I must admit an
attraction for that sort of an existence... dunno as I'd really have
been all that comfortable with it in reality, but it does attract... :)

One enjoys what one can and hopes there's
more to appreciate than to endure.

That's pretty much the same across the board... :)

The best most of us can hope for. It's
said that even if you're very rich or
have vast resources to draw from, there
are still plenty of things to endure.

Probably a different plane of existence, but I'm sure that even vast
resources or riches don't predicate contentment.... :)

The way memory files off the sharp edges,
not necessarily.

Maybe... ;) If enough of the sharp edges get filed off.... ;)

Sometimes when only some of them are lost,
the objectionableness is lost as well.

A good thing to lose.... :)

Generally, though accuracy of recollection
has its value as well.

True.

Well, she married well, her kids didn't
starve, and now she's (perhaps under my
influence) started cooking real food.
It's very, very plain.

Nothing at all wrong with plain... :)

Ideally, there ought to be a mix.

One can start with plain, and progress from there... :)

Unless one is totally satisfied with plain
and there's no incentive to progress.

I suppose that could be a hindrance... in that case, as long as plain is also done well enough to be satisfying.....? ;)

We're still talking about Lilli, right?

Yup.

Half a steak and half a potato for every
lunch and every dinner; bacon and eggs and
either toast or hash browns to start each
day; rinse and repeat until doomsday, that
would suit her fine. The occasional salad
or chocolate or ice cream for a healthful
supplement.

Hmm... that does sound like it would become quite boring....

Usually the story is negligible to laughable,
and the words fake meaningful commentary or
self-consciously witty, with frequent breaking
of the fourth wall. Clearly Mr. Hoffmannsthal
was a bit big for his britches.

True... it still makes at least negligibly better sense when seeing
it staged, at least to me.... ;)

I guess I'm too unvisual, and my suspension
of disbelief organ is defective.

And perhaps you've been more closely associated with opera, from the
pit.... ;)

That should improve my suspension of disbelief,
if anything!

Maybe.... it would give practice in ignoring the unbelievable aspects, I suppose.... I was thinking more that the aggregate would just end up
being too unbelievable, so make one less likely to try to find sense
making in the stories such as they aren't... ;)

... Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

There were those among the futurists of last
century who claimed that we would be getting
most of our nutrients from pills and supplements
by now. Come to think of it, a lot of people
are living on smoothies and yogurt, so that
may not be that far off from the truth.

For some people, anyway, I guess.... Still not what the futurists were foreseeing, though... :)

ttyl neb

... Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots.

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