One of No Good Boyo's little friends dreams at night of passing his lunch hour in the bar at work, drinking and talking nonsense with Boyo, "Kronie", "Dazza", "Fuel Rod" and other carbon sacks. The exquisite poignancy is that he spends every lunchtime doing little else.
No Good Boyo thinks this shows a perfect life/dream balance. For once the educated world and Boyo are in accord.
Freud said the key to psychological equilibrium is the Nirvana Principle. Some seek escape from stimulus in suicide and murder, but the well-adjusted achieve it through self-awareness, peaceful recreation and hence restful sleep.
I too have achieved this balance. At night I dream of wreaking vengeance on my current and future subordinates. Then I go to work and do just that.
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You go to work?? I'd always imagined that you were above such evanescent activities. :-)
I would have said that Mrs Boyo's great strength is not necessarily the work she does herself, it is her effectiveness as a cause of work in others, a function for which she is rightly valued...
Well said, Gyppo.
Indeed, Gadjo, my subordinates work. I actively witness the the encouragement they give to others.
I have a recurring dream that I'm in a room with lots of people and I can't understand what they're on about - then I go to work and it all comes chillingly true.
MC - this is what it sounds like, when doves cry!
Sorry to say you've lost me, Boyo.
I've studied the lyrics of Prince's classic, but am none the wiser as to the point at which you are driving. Are you referring to some Eastern European poet/philospoher/lush of whose existence I am unaware, through a heat-induced listlessness and geography?
MC, Boyo is probably suggesting that you and he have achieved some sort of common epiphany, on the basis of a similar exclamation by Milhouse - a character in the "Simpsons" animated family chronicle - when he meets another character with the same name.
Boyo believes that the few life lessons not contained in the film "Animal House" can be gleaned from the "Simpsons".
Thanks for the heads up, Mrs B.
If he's not quoting German literature or writing in Welsh, he's quoting the Simpsons - it's hard to know where one stands.
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